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Herbert Spencer Quotes

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: english
Birth: April 27, 1820 - December 8, 1903

Topics

Education Character Object Formation

The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its person and its nest, as any other bird. Its modest ashen-gray suit is the color of the rocks where it builds, and the moss of which it makes such free use gives to its nest the look of a natural growth or accretion.

Growth Great Bird Wise Free Color

The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something funky. In the summertime, sometimes there'd be a man sitting on a step, playing an acoustic guitar, playing some kind of folk blues. The seed had been planted.

Man Step Seed Guitar Early Windows

Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense.

Vanity Down Cultures Image Own Some

In the case of 'Goon Squad,' which sold slowly for a long time despite the good reviews, those 'best of 2010' lists were pivotal, and made the book really sell.

Good Time Best Book Long Long Time

You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Yourself You Perfect Wall Create

Everyone feels sad occasionally. A full range of emotions is part of what makes us human.

Sad Emotions Human Everyone Us Full

I'm not trying to prove anything.

Trying Prove Anything

Well, I think women across Australia, particularly, are a bit fed up with this constant attack and belittling of women in politics, and particularly the role of a female as a prime minister.

Christine Milne

Women Politics Think Australia Up

The story always leads you where it's supposed to go.

Courtney A. Kemp

Story You Go Always Where Supposed

I got the best of Rod. And I am fully aware that, even though I love listening to his stories of the crazy days, no relationship could really last then. I sometimes wish I could go back in time to the 1970s or 1980s, sit at a bar, and observe him, but I'm glad our time came when it did.

Penny Lancaster

Love Relationship Time Best I Am

I've never been willing to lie about my age. Why on earth would I want to tell people I'm 35, which I'm not, and have them say, 'Oh that's nice,' when I could tell them I'm 47, which I am, and have them look at me and go, 'Whoa!'. I'm not afraid of aging. I stopped being afraid of life a long time ago.

Life Age Time Lie Aging I Am

If you now have 20 previews, you will regard 19 of them as super-rehearsals, which is fine, except you are being watched by thousands. I remember suggesting on more than one show over the years, 'Let's not have any previews.' But no one agreed with me. If you could do that, however, it would be a great gimmick - no previews, just opening night.

Great Me Night Remember You Now

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