"The best things carried to excess are wrong."

-- Charles Churchill

“Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her position of authority, Iâ€™m convinced all over again that moving away from consequences and rewards isnâ€™t just realistic - itâ€™s the best way to help kids grow into good learners and good people.”
“Therapeutic fasting is not a mystical or magical cure. It works because the body has within it the capacity to heal when the obstacles to healing are removed. Health is the normal state. Most chronic disease is the inevitable consequence of living a life-style that places disease-causing stressors on the human organism. Fasting gives the body an interlude without those stressors so that it can speedily repair or accomplish healing that could not otherwise occur in the feeding state.”
“I try my hardest to push the point that I am a feminist.”
“To all who want to accomplish something I say, Go into the silence regularly for power and wisdom to accomplish.”

Source : Elizabeth Towne (2007). “Life Power and How to Use It”, p.45, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
“As a wise man once said: Wherever you go, there you are.”
“If you don't work very hard, it is extremely unlikely that you will be a good trader.”
“The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education.”

Source : Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.12972, Delphi Classics
“In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.”

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