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Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you read more
Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims.
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have read more
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
To be what no one ever was, To be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those Extremes read more
To be what no one ever was, To be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those Extremes that fence all effort in.
Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.
Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.
Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be read more
Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite read more
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. - Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings.
Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.
Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.
