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“She had a great big heart
but very little grace.
Every time she fell in love
she landed on her face.”
― The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 3
but very little grace.
Every time she fell in love
she landed on her face.”
― The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 3
“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”
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“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.”
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“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
― The Origin of Species
― The Origin of Species
“The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.”
― Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife
― Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife
Kishore’s 2025 Year in Books
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