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“Cultivate your garden Do not depend upon teachers to educate you follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.”

Way Said Ends Hard Joy Individual Path Teacher Impossible Depends Garden Harmony Curiosity Pursue Educate Elsewhere Bent Express Yourself Pilgrim

Author:Will Durant

“The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that, in such instances, the world is like the pious St. Austin, who said he believed some things because they were absurd and impossible.”

World Said Helping Stories Impossible Increase Absurd Instance Currency Scandal Pious Malicious Austin Improbability

Book:The works of Laurence Sterne, with a life of the author, written by himself

Source: The works of Laurence Sterne, with a life of the author, written by himself

“They said that the Negro had no initiative; that he was not a business man, but a laborer; that he had not the brain to engineer a corporation, to own and run ships; that he had no knowledge of navigation, therefore the proposition was impossible. Oh! ye of little faith. The Eternal has happened.”

Men Littles Said Running Brain Impossible Happened Eternal Ships Corporations Initiative Engineers They Said Propositions Laborers Navigation Business Man Little Faith

Book:The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers

Source: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers

“To one who said, "I do not believe that there is an honest man in the world," another replied, "It is impossible that any one man should know all the world, but quite possible that one may know himself."”

Knows Men World Should Believe May Said Lying Impossible Honest Deceit One Man Dishonesty Honest Man

Author:William Shenstone

“He[ Italo Calvino] always said it would be impossible to try to make films out of his books, though he hoped it would happen because that's where the money was.”

Trying Said Book Happens Would Be Film Impossible

Author:Giovanna Cau

“The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, "One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door." The future is knocking at our door right now. Make no mistake, the next generation will ask us one of two questions. Either they will ask: "What were you thinking; why didn't you act?" Or they will ask instead: "How did you find the moral courage to rise and successfully resolve a crisis that so many said was impossible to solve?”

“It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.”

May Said Difficult Impossible Circumstances

Author:Michael Joseph Oakeshott

“During an interview, former President George W. Bush discussed his painting hobby and said, 'Never paint your wife or your mother.' Then he added, 'Because it's almost impossible to get the paint out of their hair.'”

Said Mother President Wife Impossible Painting Hair Paint Former Interviews Hobbies President George W Bush

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be said of the Socialists' ideal. They are saying that private property is too ideal not to be impossible. They are saying that private enterprise is too good to be true. They are saying that the idea of ordinary men owning ordinary possessions is against the laws of political economy and requires an alteration in human nature.”