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| f178fc3 | Not very long after this a very exciting thing happened. Not only Sara, but the entire school, found it exciting, and made it the chief subject of conversation for weeks after it occurred. In one of his letters Captain Crewe told a most interesting story. A friend who had been at school with him when he was a boy had unexpectedly come to see him in India. He was the owner of a large tract of land upon which diamonds had been found, and he w.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 3d0252e | You are nicer than I am," said Sara. "I was too proud to try and make friends. You see, now that trials have come, they have shown that I am a nice child. I was afraid they would. Perhaps"--wrinkling her forehead wisely--"that is what they were sent for." "I don't see any good in them," said Ermengarde stoutly. "Neither do I--to speak the truth," admitted Sara, frankly. "But I suppose there be good in things, even if we don't see it. Th.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| c60cbf9 | Things happen to people by accident," she used to say. "A lot of nice accidents have happened to me. It just that I always liked lessons and books, and could remember things when I learned them. It just happened that I was born with a father who was beautiful and nice and clever, and could give me everything I liked. Perhaps I have not really a good temper at all, but if you have everything you want and everyone is kind to you, how can yo.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| fe894e7 | Then I will chant," he said. And he began, looking like a strange boy spirit. "The sun is shining-- the sun is shining. That is the Magic. The flowers are growing-- the roots are stirring. That is the Magic. Being alive is the Magic-- being strong is the Magic. The Magic is in me-- the Magic is in me. It is in me-- it is in me. It's in every one of us . It's in Ben Weatherstaff's back. Magic! Magic! Come and help!" | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| b411f10 | If you keep doing it everyday as regularly as soldiers go through drill, we shall see what will happend and find out if the experiment succeeds. You learn things by saying them over and over and thinking about them until they stay in your mind for ever, and I think it will be the same with Magic. If you keep calling it to come to you and help you, it will get to be part of you and it will stay and do things. | magic | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| 00d7576 | When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a position under the English Government and had.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| d1420e6 | When new beautiful thoughts began to push out the old hideous ones, life began to come back to him, his blood ran healthily through his veins and strength poured into him like a flood. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 0980793 | At this moment she was remembering the voyage she had just made from Bombay with her father, Captain Crewe. She was thinking of the big ship, of the Lascars passing silently to and fro on it, of the children playing about on the hot deck, and of some young officers' wives who used to try to make her talk to them and laugh at the things she said. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| a48b38b | There were in this strange nature, depths so awful and profound that it was not to be sounded or to be judged as others were. But one thing could have melted or caused the unconquerable spirit to bend, and this was the overwhelming passion of love--not a slight, tender feeling, but a great and powerful one, such as could be awakened but by a being of as strong and deep a nature as itself, one who was in all things its peer. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 541e5a7 | Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| d3a95da | Perhaps, the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. | inspirational the-secret-garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| 0a7e4c6 | How is it that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language that is not made up of words & everything in this world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything & it can always speak, without making a sound, to another soul. | soul | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| 30b7140 | She IS too fat," said Lavinia. "And Sara is too thin." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 0a0d3f1 | She said that perhaps it was not so easy to be very rich; that if any one had so many things always, one might sometimes forget that every one else was not so fortunate, and that one who is rich should always be careful and try to remember. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| dba86c9 | She was all in pink, and a wreath of little pink wild roses lay close about her head, making her, with her tall young slimness, look like a Botticelli nymph. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 65fa3f4 | The great strength she had used in the old days to conquer and subdue, to win her will and to defend her way, seemed now a power but to protect the suffering and uphold the weak, and this she did, not alone in hovels but in the brilliant court and world of fashion, for there she found suffering and weakness also, all the more bitter and sorrowful since it dared not cry aloud. | inspirational-quotes mercy quality succor suffering | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| 58f966a | If you have no right to disapprove, then your approval means nothing. It may indeed be distressing to someone to have you express your opinion that his lifestyle is disgusting and his art, music or writing is crude, shallow, or repugnant, but unless you are free to reach such conclusions, any praise you bestow is hollow and suspect. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 7d72844 | 1:THE "CRISIS": Although Chief Judge Bazelon said in 1960 that "we desperately need all the help we can get from modern behavioral scientists"69 in dealing with the criminal law, the cold facts suggest no such desperation or crisis. Since the most reliable long-term crime data are on murder, what was the murder rate at that point? The number of murders committed in the United States in 1960 was less than in 1950, 1940, or 1930--even though .. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 6bd3470 | To be sensitive, as ideologically defined, requires that one not merely accept but "affirm" other people's way of life or even "celebrate" diversity in general. Like other demands for "sensitivity," this demand offers no reason--unless fear of being disapproved, denounced, or harassed is a reason." | Thomas Sowell | ||
| be46bca | While the Obama administration in Washington is not the root cause of the ominous dangers that face this country, at home and abroad, it is the embodiment, the personification and the culmination of dangerous trends that began decades ago. Moreover, it has escalated those dangers to what may be a point of no return. The specifics of the missteps and the misdeeds of this administration are among the things chronicled, here and there, in the .. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 22399ed | The fundamental confusion that makes income bracket data and individual income data seem mutually contradictory is the implicit assumption that people in particular income brackets at a given time are an enduring "class" at that level. If that were true, then trends over time in comparisons between income brackets would be the same as trends over time between individuals. Because that is not the case, the two sets of statistics lead not onl.. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 19f5dce | Guns are completely inappropriate for the kind of sheep-like people the anointed envision or the orderly, prepackaged world in which they are to live. When you are in mortal danger, you are supposed to dial 911, so that the police can arrive on the scene some time later, identify your body, and file reports in triplicate. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 95e7add | Looking at old photographs makes it hard for me to believe that I was ever that thin physically. And remembering some of the things I did in those days makes it hard to believe that I was ever that thin mentally. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| fd91bf1 | The results show how unreliable peer consensus can be, even when it is a peer consensus of highly intellectual people, if those people share a very similar vision of the world and treat its conclusions as axioms, rather than as hypotheses that need to be checked against facts. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 78109e2 | The initial wealth of a group and its time of arrival are obviously important, as many wealthy "old families " show, but the Jews arrived late and penniless in the nineteenth century and are now more affluent than any other ethnic group." -- | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 5501355 | Lamenting the vagaries of fate may leave us with a galling sense of helpless frustration, which many escape by transforming the tragedy of the human condition into the specific sins of specific societies. This turns an insoluble problem of cosmic justice into an apparently manageable issue of social justice. Since the sins of human beings are virtually inexhaustible, there is seldom a lack of examples of wrongdoing to which intergroup diffe.. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 49ccfb8 | External explanations of black-white differences -- discrimination or poverty, for example--seem to many to be more amenable to public policy than internal explanations such as culture. Those with this point of view tend to resist cultural explanations but there is yet another reason why some resist understanding the counterproductive effects of an anachronistic culture: Alternative explanations of economic and social lags provide a more sa.. | poverty racism | Thomas Sowell | |
| ca2b488 | The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 203f4ab | There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day: we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life.288 | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 8520555 | If you are serious about education, then you need to start a lot earlier than fifteen years old to give each child a decent shot at life in the real world, as distinguished from make-believe equality while in school. Ability grouping or "tracking"--so hated by the ideological egalitarians--is one of the best ways of doing that." | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 267a821 | Only in the light of this agenda does it make sense that so-called "sex education" should be advocated to take place throughout the school years--from kindergarten to college--when it could not possibly take that much time to teach basic biological or medical information about sex. What takes that long is a constant indoctrination in new attitudes.63" | Thomas Sowell | ||
| a4e05dc | The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge they could bring to bear on those resources and the knowledge used today. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 39de9bf | Justice at all costs' is not justice. | philosophy-of-law | Thomas Sowell | |
| ed3ff56 | Although Adam Smith is today often regarded as a "conservative" figure, he in fact attacked some of the dominant ideas and interests of his own times. Moreover, the idea of a spontaneously self-equilibrating system--the market economy--first developed by the Physiocrats and later made part of the tradition of classical economics by Adam Smith, represented a radically new departure, not only in analysis of social causation but also in seeing.. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 18dbd9f | Perhaps the most important thing about risk is its inescapability. Particular individuals, groups, or institutions may be sheltered from risk - but only at the cost of having someone else bear that risk. For a society as a whole, there is no someone else. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| edd731a | Differences in habits and attitudes are differences in human capital, just as much as differences in knowledge and skills--and such differences create differences in economic outcomes. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 6d8422c | prices are not costs. Prices are what pay for costs. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 6f30da1 | The history of black workers in the United States illustrates the point. As already noted, from the late nineteenth-century on through the middle of the twentieth century, the labor force participation rate of American blacks was slightly higher than that of American whites. In other words, blacks were just as employable at the wages they received as whites were at their very different wages. The minimum wage law changed that. Before federa.. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 87ee637 | All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in a strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. | living-things madness | Yann Martel | |
| 670e800 | We do not have a choice whether or not to discuss history. History has always been invoked in contemporary controversies.The only choice is between discussing what actually happened in the past and discussing notions projected into the past for present purposes. History is the memory of the human race. For an individual to wake up some morning with no memory would be devastating. In addition to the emotional trauma of suddenly finding every.. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 28aeae4 | White liberals, instead of comparing what has happened to the black family since the liberal welfare state policies of the 1960s were put into practice, compare black families to white families and conclude that the higher rates of broken homes and unwed motherhood among blacks are due to "a legacy of slavery." But why the large-scale disintegration of the black family should have begun a hundred years after slavery is left unexplained. Wha.. | liberalism slavery | Thomas Sowell | |
| dde20a0 | Top colleges turn out extraordinary graduates because they take in extraordinary freshmen. That tells very little about what happened in the intervening four years, except that it did not ruin these individuals completely. It tells even less about what would have happened if these same extraordinary people had been educated elsewhere. Whether a given individual will do better, either educationally or financially, by going to a bigname colle.. | Thomas Sowell | ||
| 3fa9e76 | Failure to use tax money to finance things not liked by the taxpaying public is routinely called 'censorship.' If such terminology were used consistently, virtually all of life would be just one long, unending censorship, as individuals choose whether to buy apples instead of oranges, vacations rather than violins, furniture rather than mutual funds. But of course no such consistency is intended. This strained use of the word 'censorship' a.. | taxes | Thomas Sowell | |
| 04a3369 | What part of ourselves needs to evaporate in order to concentrate our essence? What do we have to let go? | Andrew Weil |