#be

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#dancing #fencing #law #law school #merit

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#before #grew #grow #make #only

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#am #anything #because #dreadful #fiction

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#before #between #constructed #construction #created

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#had #heart #human #human heart #strings

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#times #worst

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#china #cows #entirely #ever #farm

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#charity #door #home #justice #next

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#before #discipline #girl #head #her

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#carriage #could #death #held #i