David Landes Quotes
Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.
David Landes
Quotes to Explore
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What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Where evil men would seek to perpetuate
an unjust status quo,
good men must seek to bring into being
a real order of justice.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The heavy rain beat down the tender branches of vine and jessamine, and trampled on them in its fury; and when the lightning gleamed, it showed the tearful leaves shivering and cowering together at the window, and tapping at it urgently, as if beseeching to be sheltered from the dismal night.
Charles Dickens
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Never give your sweetie all your heart, what heart will you have left in the end, and what would you do?
Billy Howerdel
Ashes Divide
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We have a person that wants to balance the budget by charging $1,000 to every family who spanks their child.
Sean Hannity
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No habit has any real hold on you other than the hold you have on it.
Gardner Hunting
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The day I get too big for myself, my mum will slap me down!
Mitch Hewer
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Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair
Richard John Neuhaus
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The passion for exploration and discovery, the hunger to learn all things about all aspects of the physical world, the great and preposterous optimism that held that such truths were in fact discoverable, its dazzling sophistication and its occasional startling innocence; an age in which geographical and scientific discoveries surpassed anything previously dreamt of, and yet an age in which it was still, just barely, possible to believe in mermaids and unicorns - these remarkable traits so characterized the British 18th century
Caroline Alexander
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Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.
David Landes
