"My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played."

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Source : James Nasmyth (2010). “James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography”, p.57, BoD – Books on Demand

James Nasmyth

#Children Quotes #Father Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn't.”
“I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.”
“NASA scientists announced the discovery of 50 new planets, among them what they're calling Super Earth. It's indistinguishable from regular earth until it removes its glasses.”
“At the end of the day, these are issues that need to be discussed: femicides, among other things - immigrant rights, women's' rights, indigenous people's rights, animal rights, Mother Earth's rights. If we don't talk about these topics, then we have no place in democracy. It won't exist. Democracy isn't just voting; it's relegating your rights.”
“The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty.”
“You focus on the here and now in order to escape existence forever and vanish into Nirvana. There is another religious impulse that is the opposite of this. It uses a world elsewhere in order to affirm life and give a reason to "go forth and multiply".”
“Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence...”

Source : Max Ehrmann, “Desiderata”
“You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.”

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