"When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense."

-- Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#People Quotes #History Quotes #Rebellion Quotes

“Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible.”
“Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.”

Source : "Discourse on the Method". Book by Rene Descartes, 1637.
“The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.”
“Never stop being YOU. I am out to be the best ME I can be. Do what you LOVE and you will be badass.”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 28, 2012.
“Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen.”
“No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.”
“When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can't think any more.”
“I've never worked out what the moral of Humpty Dumpty is. I can only think of: Don't sit on a wall, if you're an egg.”

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