"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones."

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Source : "Many Thoughts of Many Minds" edited by Henry Southgate, 1862.

Lord Chesterfield

#Education Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“Bet on yourself! You never lose if you bet on yourself!”
“Flirting is a cheap, dangerous shortcut to get something you can't hold after you get it.”
“Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.”
“In the end, it's all about perseverance.”
“The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.”
“...The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists......Keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females, too, until the social construct known as the white race is destroyed. Not deconstructed, but destroyed.”

Source : "When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories". Book by Bernestine Singley, harvardmagazine.com. 2002.
“What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The DOING is all that really counts.”
“Climbers are a universal tribe: we share the knowledge that things are not important. Experience is important. Feeling is important.”

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