"Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly."

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Source : No Mean City ch. 38 (1944)

Simeon Strunsky

#Knowledge Quotes

“We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible.”
“At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.”
“By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!”
“The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.”
“Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.”
“Thereâ€™s a certain relationship which we have to have with our inner functioning. That of respect and that of wonder. When we are quiet enough and positive enough that we can follow these fine indications inside which lead us to more functioning, we will find out what precious abilities we have which we usually donâ€™t use.”
“This isn't just 'the way things are.' This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours.”

Source : Andrew Klavan (2009). “Empire of Lies”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.”

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