Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge … - John Ruskin

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The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow. If the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan.

John Ruskin

Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.

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There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

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Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

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To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.

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It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

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Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

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How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again?. . . Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

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As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.

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The longer I live the more I am convinced that neither age nor circumstance needs to deprive us of energy and vitality. We are at last awakening to the close relationship between religion and health. . . . our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life.

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