"The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries."

-- Woodrow Wilson

#Sight Quotes #Mind Quotes #Age Quotes

“The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.”
“My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a wild thing. It's kind of a drug, a rush.”
“But one, the lofty follower of the Sun, Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves Drooping all night; and, when he warm returns, Points her enamoured bosom to his ray.”
“You can be born gay, but not because of your genetics, I think because of your subconscious more than your genetics. I think genetically, we're made to reproduce. We can't survive this route. Genetically, that's the way to go. Genetically, we have to reproduce, but subconsciously, and preferentially, you can be born with that.”
“The highest religion is to rise to universal brother hood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.”
“Jesus was not conquered by death. By His death, He conquered death.”
“The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.”

Source : John Dewey, Debra Morris, Ian Shapiro (1993). “The Political Writings”, p.119, Hackett Publishing
“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday the sky would be emptied, but by then the earth would be a constellation of musical scores”

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