Trollen De Schorre Quotes & Sayings

If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every child an aptitude to acquire these kinds of knowledge in the same order. So that even were the order intrinsically indifferent, it would facilitate education to lead the individual mind through the steps traversed by the general mind. But the order is not intrinsically indifferent; and hence the fundamental reason why education should be a repetition of civilization in little. — Herbert Spencer

Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes. — Frank Schatzing

The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead. — W. H. Auden

The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated. — Eamon De Valera

We don't always come out unbreakable the first time. So we are broken and rebuilt several times, until there is no question that we can stand on our own — Arlene Lagos

The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition — W.Chan Kim

We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings! — Casey Stengel

PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with. — Ambrose Bierce