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“My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first, I regard them as earth's heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.”

Ifs Firsts Believe Littles Earth Wish Causes Accepting Atheism Son Hero Understood Regard Blind Ass My Son Monkeys Propositions Deaf Antithesis Baboons Foals

Book:Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues

Source: Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues

“It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.”

Ifs Mind May Common Talent Speed Companion Inferiors Destined Herds Collars Adverse Yoke Racers Foals

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it - it was like a kicking foal that does not listen to reason - I have always been told I have a pleasant and recognizable voice.”

Doe Reason Voice Periods Crisis Pleasant Adolescence Kicking Foals

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.”

Middle Figures Fourth Stout Clovers Mares Motherly Foals

Book:Animal Farm

Source: Animal Farm

“Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.”

Love Littles Faces Animal Poor Race Oppressed Foals

Book:The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“We also know that the various faith-based institutions provide about 50 per cent of the health and education services in the poor communities; we also know that they have a large constituency including women and youth; they have outreach and networks and they are credible to their people. If we want to achieve the Millennium Development Foals by scaling up the responses of all the communities, do we ignore this large investment in people? Or do we engage in dialogue and in action?”