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“The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.”

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Abraham Flexner was a distinguished American journalist and educational reformer, known for his significant contributions to medical education and higher education reform. He was born on November 13, 1866, and died on September 21, 1959. more

“We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.”

Feels America Spirit Sex Race Conditions Objects Higher Regard Institutions Accidents Pursuit Characteristics Creeds Personnel Higher Learning

Author:Abraham Flexner

“Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.”

Interesting Alive Difficulty Honorable

Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell

“Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting, and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age. To my own surprise I burst out with hot conviction. Only a few years ago I enjoyed my tranquility; now I am so disturbed by the outer world and by human quality in general that I want to put things right, as though I still owed a debt to life. I must calm down. I am far too frail to indulge in moral fervor.”

Source: Measure of My Days

“The enchantment of the sky, ever changing beauty almost ignored. Beyond words, without fixed form, not to be understood, or stated. It ravished away dullness, worry, even pain. It graces life when nothing else does. It is the first marvel of the day. Even when leaden grey it is still a friend, withdrawn for a time.”

Firsts Doe Stills Pain Form Worry Grace Sky Understood Fixed Ignored Grey Enchantment Dullness

Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell

“My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.”

Waiting Black Pleasure Kitchen Florida Kettles Waltz

Book:Measure of My Days

Source: Measure of My Days

“Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.”

Touring

Author:Ian Anderson

“We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high.”

Knows Age Capacity Intense Disability

Book:Measure of My Days

Source: Measure of My Days

“The institutions that claim to represent God, when they are not ignored altogether, are treated like other human institutions that have to earn their right to a hearing by the value of what they say, and not by virtue of who is saying it. Today, authority has to earn respect by the intrinsic value of what it says, not by the force of its imposition.”

Humans Today Values Force Virtue Authority Claims Institutions Hearing Treated Ignored Imposition Intrinsic Value Earn Respect

Book:Godless Morality: Keeping Religion Out Of Ethics

Source: Godless Morality: Keeping Religion Out Of Ethics

“God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.”

Ifs Children Littles Self Waiting Prayer Discipline Offers Filled Hunger Self Control Thirst Hunger And Thirst

Author:Richard Holloway

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