"The development doctrines are doing much harm on both sides of the Atlantic, especially among intelligent mechanics, and a class of young men engaged in the subordinate departments of trade and the law. And the harm thus considerable in amount must be necessarily more than considerable in degree. For it invariably happens, that when persons in these walks become materialists, they become turbulent subjects and bad men."

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Source : "The Foot-prints of the Creator: Or, The Asterolepis of Stromness".

Hugh Miller

#Men Quotes #Intelligent Quotes #Law Quotes

“Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions”
“My wife handles all of our technology. So if something goes wrong with the computer, I throw up my arms and step aside while the IT gal figures it out.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it.”
“The idea of recognizing your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me”
“Robert Burns in his splendid indifference to rank, and Whitman in his glorification of common things, have points of kinship with him. But to such radiant white heart of child-likeness, it would be impossible to find a perfect counterpart.”
“It's not forever', she'd said, but to my mother, it might as well have been. She had make her choice, and this was it, where she felt safe, in a world she could, for the most part, control.”
“Labor, you know, is prayer.”
“The Washington Post speaking out against state legislation that he believed would let businesses deny services to gay, lesbian and transgender people. [Tim] Cook himself came out as gay in the pages of Bloomberg Businessweek.”

Source : "How Tim Cook's Stand Over Digital Privacy Could Define Apple's Future". "All Things Considered" with Laura Sydell, www.npr.org. February 25, 2016.

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