Ellador Quotes & Sayings

It's not nature versus nurture. It's nurturing your nature. — Andrew Solomon

What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to be defined, and applies only to them; it is that which satisfies the rules of logic. But in education it is not that; it is one that can be understood by the pupils. — Henri Poincare

to know that an inference is deductively valid is to know that there are no situations in which the premisses are true and the conclusion is not. — Graham Priest

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

I sometimes wish we could have, over the next five or ten years, a lot of horrid things happening-you know, like tornadoes in the Midwest and so forth-that would get people very concerned about climate change. — Thomas Schelling

We have always had war," Terry explained ... "It is human nature."
"Human?" asked Ellador.
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"Are some of the soldiers women?" she inquired.
"Women! Of course not! They are men; strong, brave men ... "
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"Then why do you call it 'human nature?' she persisted. "If it was human wouldn't they both do it?"
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"Do you call bearing children 'human nature'? she asked him. "It's woman nature," he answered. "It's her work."
"Then why do you not call fighting 'man nature'
instead of human? — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

With flowing tail and flying mane,
Wide nostrils never stretched by pain,
Mouth bloodless to bit or rein,
And feet that iron never shod,
And flanks unscar'd by spur or rod,
A thousand horses - the wild - the free -
Like waves that follow o'er the sea,
Came thickly thundering on. — Lord Byron

Everything that has form must have a beginning and an end. — Swami Vivekananda

Goodness, that stuff rips like paper," she exclaimed, reaching to pull her tank top off. She was halfway through the action when the door opened and Alec walked into the room.
"Izzy, are you - " he began. His eyes flew wide, and he backed up fast enough to smack his head into the wall behind him. "What is he doing here?"
Isabelle tugged her tank top back down and glared at her brother. "You don't knock now?"
"It - It's my bedroom!" Alec spluttered. He seemed to be deliberately trying not to look at Izzy and Simon, who were indeed in a very compromising position. — Cassandra Clare