"New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth."

-- James Russell Lowell

#Progress Quotes #Ancient Quotes #Duty Quotes

“Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention.”

Source : "Vaccines: The Biggest Bang for the Buck in Global Health" by Seth Berkley, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2011.
“I know some of my self-worth comes from tennis, and it's hard to think of doing something else where you know you'll never be thebest. Tennis players are rare creatures: where else in the world can you know that you're the best? The definitiveness of it is the beauty of it, but it's not all there is to life and I'm ready to explore the alternatives.”
“Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity.”
“To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform course of human events, and to set at defiance the accumulated experience of ages.”
“Well, everybody needs help feeling alive again every once in a while.â€ â€œNo,â€ she says seriously, and my gaze falls back on hers, â€œI didnâ€™t say again, Andrew; for making me feel alive for the first time.”
“Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess cold. Across Europe, there are six times more cold-related deaths than heat-related deaths...by 2050...Warmer temperatures will save 1.4 million lives each year.”
“Mathematical demonstrations being built upon the impregnable Foundations of Geometry and Arithmetick are the only truths that can sink into the Mind of Man, void of all Uncertainty; and all other Discourses participate more or less of Truth according as their Subjects are more or less capable of Mathematical Demonstration.”

Source : James ELMES, Sir Christopher Wren (1852). “Sir Christopher Wren and his times. With illustrative sketches and anecdotes of the most distinguished personages in the seventeenth century”, p.100
“Beware of sadness It can hit you It can hurt you Make you sore and what is more That is not what you are here for.”

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