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My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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One half of my life has put the other half in the grave. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#half #life #my life #one half #other

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#desires #once #overcome #their #them

To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#impossible #nothing #nothing is impossible #who

My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

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Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

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There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

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Don't judge a book by its thickness either. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#either #judge #thickness

Progress is hardly ever dramatic; in fact, it is usually very slow. As every parent and teacher knows, education is never a matter of ten-step plans or quick formulas, but of faithful commitment to the mundane challenges of daily life: getting up from the sofa to spend time with our children, loving them and disciplining them, becoming involved in their lives at school and, most important, making sure they have a wholesome family life to return to at home. Maybe that is why Jesus teaches us to ask for strength little by little, on a daily basis - "Give us this day our daily bread" - and why he stresses the significance of even the smallest, humblest beginnings: "Wherever two of you agree about anything you ask for, it shall be done for you... For where two or three come together in my name, I shall be with them" (Mt. 18:19-20). ↗

— Johann Christoph Arnold

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Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

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