"The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior."

-- Alfie Kohn

#Children Quotes #Book Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.”

Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation
“From a young age, I was viciously competitive.”
“Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.”
“The great successes of the modern environmental movement in the '60s and '70s had laid the seeds of their failure in the early years of the 21st Century. They had built institutions filled with lawyers and scientists well suited to lobby policy makers who basically shared their world view. This worked well when liberals controlled the Congress and much of the federal bureaucracy, and when the politics of the time were more supportive of active government efforts to regulate the economy and clean up the environment.”
“No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.”
“To write about history or language is supposed to be within the reach of every man. To write about natural science is allowed to be within the reach only of those who have mastered the subjects on which they write.”

Source : Edward Augustus Freeman (1886). “The Methods of Historical Study: Eight Lectures Read in the University of Oxford In...1884, with the Inaugural Lecture on The Office of the Historical Professor”
“I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.”
“There is nothing outside the universe”

Source : "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity". Book by Lee Smolin, 2000.

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