#thou

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. ↗

— Patricia Neal

#expectations #expects #master #own #teacher

We can preserve Social Security benefits for generations of Americans without privatizing this important program. ↗

— Richard Neal

#generations #important #preserve #privatizing #program

I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter. ↗

— Holly Near

#bitter #get #hard #i #know

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#cause #efficient #even #fruit #great

The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the "I," under another form, continues the task of existence. ↗

— Gerard De Nerval

#becomes #continues #death #determine #exact

Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world. ↗

— Gerard De Nerval

#been #dreams #gates #i #invisible

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#because #frame #important #much #precise

I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#best #clearly #conclusion #did #finally

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#am #born #descent #england #i

I brought this case because I am an atheist and this offends me, and I have the right to bring up my daughter without God being imposed into her life by her schoolteachers. ↗

— Michael Newdow

#atheist #because #being #bring #brought