Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.

Maria Montessori
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  2. Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed. - Tiffany Madison

  3. It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package. - Deb Caletti

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  5. A gentleman holds my hand. A man pulls my hair. A soulmate will do both. - Alessandra Torre

More Quotes By Maria Montessori
  1. Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.

  2. Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

  3. To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.

  4. The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.

  5. If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.

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