"The greater part of the people we assign to educate our sons we know for certain are not educated. Yet we do not doubt that they can give what they have not received, a thing which cannot be otherwise acquired."

-- Giacomo Leopardi

#Teaching Quotes #Son Quotes #People Quotes

“Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.”
“There are all sorts of institutions in the economic world which depart from the simple price/market model which I worked on in an earlier incarnation and which has been sort of the mainstream of economic theories since Adam Smith and David Ricardo. There are all sorts of contractual relations between firms and individuals which do not conform to the simple price theory - profit-sharing schemes and so forth - and the explanation for these suddenly became clear. We now understand why these emerged and that they are based on differences in information in the economy.”

Source : Source: www.minneapolisfed.org
“For me it was sort of career suicide to work in color, but I did it because I perceived myself from an early stage to be interested in seasonality - the changing of the seasons - thats what I deeply loved.”
“Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.”
“Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.”
“No woman kills herself for love, and rarely for shame. It is the cruelty of hope that does a woman in; for no matter how many men a woman has given herself to, she never holds her life cheap until she foolishly believed it to be valued.”

Source : Sheri Holman (2010). “The Dress Lodger”, p.234, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I'm a very unhealthy person, and Montreal is very cold, and I'm usually sick when I'm there.”
“I can certainly see that you know your wine. Most of the guests who stay here wouldn't know the difference between Bordeaux and Claret.”

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