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He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed him in exactly the same manner as it had addressed hundreds of other boys, all varying in character and capacity, had enabled him to dash through his tasks, always with fair credit and often with distinction, but in a fitful, dazzling way that had confirmed his reliance on those very qualities in himself which it had been most desirable to direct and train. They were good qualities, without which no high place can be meritoriously won, but like fire and water, though excellent servants, they were very bad masters. If they had been under Richard’s direction, they would have been his friends; but Richard being under their direction, they became his enemies.


Charles Dickens


#education #intelligence #education

One bulb at a time. There was no other way to do it. No shortcuts--simply loving the slow process of planting. Loving the work as it unfolded. Loving an achievement that grew slowly and bloomed for only three weeks each year.


Jaroldeen Asplund Edwards


#consistency #effort #journey #joy #perseverance

To me, style is consistency.


Adam Ant


#me #style

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.


Margaret Atwood


#inconsistencies #many #odyssey #story #told

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.


Mortimer Adler


#based #consists #due #exchange #fair

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.


Theodor Adorno


#consists #differences #discrimination #tact

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.


Ambrose Bierce


#belief #inconsistent #manifestly #opinion #own

The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.


Edward Burnett Tylor


#consists #great #height #interior #mass

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.


Tryon Edwards


#basis #been #demonstrated #fact #faith

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.


Greg Egan


#branch #civilisation #computers #conscious #consists






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