"I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I may reduce to type."

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Source : "Recollections of Thomas R. Marshall: A Hoosier Salad" by Thomas R. Marshall, (Ch. XVI), 1925.

Thomas R. Marshall

#May Quotes #Type Quotes #Accuracy Quotes

“To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.”
“Greening school design provides an extraordinarily cost-effective way to enhance student learning, reduce health and operational costs and, ultimately, increase school quality and competitiveness.”

Source : "Greening America’s Schools: costs and benefits". Research by Gregory Kats, www.usgbc.org. October 2006.
“I donâ€™t have any doubt in my mind that there will come a time when we will see violence against animal rights abusers.”
“A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.”
“Well, the film's not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it's pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies. I had never read anything like this until I was doing the film, but Mark [Joffe, the director] and people showed me stuff where, like a flood, it mattered where the water came from. If you're flooded from above, you get the money; if you're flooded from below, you don't. What's that about?”
“There is a kind of immortality in every garden.”
“It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.”
“Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.”

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