"If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit."

-- Woodrow Wilson

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“A concern with parenting...must direct attention beyond behavior. This is because parenting is not simply a set of behaviors, but participation in an interpersonal, diffuse, affective relationship. Parenting is an eminently psychological role in a way that many other roles and activities are not.”
“Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.”

Source : Pamela Hansford Johnson (2012). “Night and Silence, Who is Here?”, p.117, Pan Macmillan
“It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.”
“Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.”
“I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.”
“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”

Source : "The Wizardry Compiled". Book by Rick Cook, 1989.
“The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.”

Source : June Callwood (1981). “Portrait of Canada”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
“Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.”

Source : Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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