“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.”
Alexis de Tocqueville, quoted in the Associated Press
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.”
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Anatole France, quoted in the New Orleans Times-Picayune
“Nothing is so astonishing in education as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”
Historian Henry Adams, quoted in CBSNews.com
“The only completely consistent people are the dead.”
Aldous Huxley, quoted in the Australian Advertiser
“A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
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Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, quoted in BookReporter.com
“Success and failure are equally disastrous.”
Tennessee Williams, quoted in the Montreal Gazette
“Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.”
Novelist G.B. Stern, quoted in the Cleveland Plain Dealer
