"If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident."

-- Alma Gluck

#Giving Up Quotes #Goal Quotes #Advice Quotes

“The historic role of the Conservative Party is to use the leverage of its political and diplomatic skills to create a fresh balance between the different elements within the state at those times when, for one reason or another, their imbalance threatens to disrupt the orderly development of society”
“Aladdin, who said to his wife, I know it's not a lamp, keep rubbing! Never got a dinner!”
“Every time you finish something ... you figure you've finally learned to write, right? Then you start something else and it turns out you haven't. You have learned how to write that story, or that book, but you haven't learned how to write the next one.”
“One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.”
“Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.”
“Attachments stir the soul, ignite the emotions. Guard what moves you, reserving that for the truth.”

Source : FaceBook post by Suhaib Webb from Aug 31, 2015
“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. From a biological point of view it is inconceivable that any culture will forget that it needs to reproduce itself. But it is quite possible for a culture to exist without a social idea of children. Unlike infancy, childhood is a social artifact, not a biological category.”

Source : Neil Postman (2011). “The Disappearance of Childhood”, p.10, Vintage
“If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but divined.”

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