"Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law."

-- Cecil B. DeMille

#Men Quotes #Law Quotes #Moses Quotes

“Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.”
“Some people take no mental exercise apart from jumping to conclusions.”
“As ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science, without at the same time improving the science itself; neither can we, on the other hand, improve a science without improving the language or nomenclature which belongs to it.”

Source : Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1802). “Elements of chemistry, tr. by R. Kerr”, p.18
“I think Unix is a great system -- especially for running data centers -- because it is very mature, very reliable, very scalable. But when I want to go out and populate small devices, I think Java.”
“So you've just slept with him, given him your virginity, a man who doesn't love you. In fact, he has odd ideas about you, wants to make you some sort of kinky sex slave.”
“I have a child and I've made a few people happy. That is all.”
“When you have passionate fans, they feel like they're a part of your career.”
“The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places ... It is to master the physical self, to transcend the beauty of nature. School should develop the power to withdraw from the external world.”

Source : "The Philosophy of Education". Book by William Torrey Harris, 1889.

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