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“In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.”
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“A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.”
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“In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given trouble; they exist for it, they are geared to it. For the location of a mislaid volume, an uncatalogued item, your good librarian has a ferret’s nose. Give her a scent and she jumps the leash, her eye bright with battle.”
Source : Catherine Drinker Bowen (1959). “Adventures of a Biographer”, Boston : Little, Brown
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“A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.”
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“I want people to feel good about themselves.”
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“Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.”
Source : James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”
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“Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.”
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“We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.”