Devon's Quote Collection
Friday, October 26, 2012
How much "juice" is wasted in this cut-and-dry world of ours and how much could be saved if only all were even fairly intelligent regarding the laws of nature!
A great deal of the business of this world is run on the "let her buzz" theory, and the public pays for the waste.
--Elisha Gray, in Electricity and Magnetism
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“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
-Immanuel Kant, in Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose
"A man's emotions are what define him, and control is the hallmark of true strength. To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child."
-Dalinar in Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings
"We like to think that we value individuality, but all too often we admire one type of individual,"
--Susan Cain in Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking
"Yet the most important thing we can do to improve our future is the most personal: to extend a sense of grace and tolerance toward the people who disagree with us or who are different from us in some way-even those who attack us. This sense of forgive ness starts with each of us."
Andrew Yang, Forward
