Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.
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Zeno Of Citium
The initial animosity between divergent approaches can be overcome if we realize that each has something to offer that the other lacks. We may weave them together into a new whole that is stronger than the sum of its parts.
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Frans De Waal
Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there's you fellows who can't be trusted. And then there's the multitude who mean to have bathrooms and white enamel. Millions of them; all over the world. Not merely here. And there aren't enough bathrooms and white enamel in...
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Ford Madox Ford
Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are done, we recognize one thing: that the human race has been badly manhandled, but that it has moved forward.
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Victor Hugo
Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside, ” is a safe rule for those who would always retain the good opinion of that all-powerful, but somewhat unintelligent, incubus, “the average person, ” but...
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Jerome K. Jerome
More Quotes By Alfred North Whitehead
Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural...
Religion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people it carries towards mercy and justice; the persecuting people it carries into fiendish sadistic cruelty. Mind you, though this may seem to justify the eighteenth-century Age of Reason in...
Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development.
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
