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«We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.»
Author: Joseph Priestley
(Chemist, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
administrative, geniuses, in color, orders, pattern, take orders, towering, types
«Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.»
Author: Joseph Priestley
(Chemist, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
entered, Isaac, Isaac Newton, Sir Isaac Newton, traced
«To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.»
«The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.»
«As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us»
«This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names»
«We pay when old for the excesses of youth.»
«To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.»
«Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.»
«Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever»
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