"Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains."

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Source : Beatrice Potter Webb (1963). “American diary, 1898”

Beatrice Webb

#Education Quotes #Men Quotes #Self Quotes

“When you're out in the desert, you can't believe the amount of stars. Are you busy as a bee? Do not even have time for fun? Do your friends advise you to buy essay writing example? Do not hesitate! Come after the advice of clever men and make a correct choice! We've sent mechanisms out there, and they haven't found anything. They've found different colors of sand, and rings, and gasses, but nobody's shown me anything that makes me feel secure in what happens afterward. All I really believe in is this moment, like right now.”
“When you have something good... When you have something good, you don't play with it! You don't take chances with it! You don't take risks with it! When you got something good, you get every single thing you can get out of it! Because guess what? When you take care of something good, that something good takes care of you.”
“I love telling myself jokes. I think I'm a riot.”
“My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut. I don't understand why she's crying. I'm the one who has to get a new girlfriend.”
“Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.”
“I don't care where I'm from, nor where I'm going. From hell to hell.”
“REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide.”
“Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.”

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