Top 36 Ellen Swallow Richards Quotes

#1. Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.

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#2. If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They should be a comfort and a protection.

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#3. All religions are the same. They all lead to God. God is everybody ... The same blood flows through us all, the arms, the legs, the heart, all are the same. See no difference.
See all the same.

Neem Karoli Baba

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#4. New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

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#5. I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are fit to vote.

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#6. I really think that life isn't logical and life isn't always meaningful. I'm just trying to go into that zone without being too random, and just trying to create some new logic [in moviemaking] that feels like dreams.

Quentin Dupieux

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#7. You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

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#8. We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

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#9. I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting off all earthly ties and isolating me as it were.

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#10. The quality of life depends upon the ability of society to teach it's members how to live in harmony with their environment-def ined first as family, then the community, then the world and its resources.

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#11. It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.

James Agee

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#12. One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.

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#13. Baby, take me home. Take me to our home. Please.

Alex Morgan

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#14. Most people are accusing God, asking, "How can you punish sinners? How can you let good people go to hell?" But the question the Bible asks is exactly the opposite: "God, how can you be just and still let guilty sinners into heaven?" And the only answer to that question is Jesus Christ.

David Platt

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#15. Nature is under control but not disturbed.

Beatrix Of The Netherlands

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#16. Perhaps the fact that I am not a Radical or a believer in the all powerful ballot for women to right her wrongs and that I do notscorn womanly duties, but claim it as a privilege to clean up and sort of supervise the room and sew things, etc., is winning me stronger allies than anything else.

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#17. It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict.

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#18. It is cowardly to fly from natural duties and take up those that suit our taste or temperament better; but it is also unwise to take an exaggerated view of personal duties, which shuts out the proper care of the mind and body entrusted to us.

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#19. I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.

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#20. A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste.

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#21. A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy ...

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#22. Good luck, and may you live to see the Stars

David Hofmeyr

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#23. If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

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#24. Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

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#25. The unrecognized genius - that's an old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one - the genius recognized too well? ... That a great many men are poor fools who can't see the best - that's nothing. One can't get angry at that. But do you understand about the men who see it and don't want it?

Ayn Rand

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#26. The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.

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#27. The environment that people live in is the environment that they learn to live in, respond to, and perpetuate. If the environment is good, so be it. But if it is poor, so is the quality of life within it.

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#28. Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy.

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#29. All enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.

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#30. I hope that I am winning a way which others will keep open.

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#31. The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?

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#32. The world moves, but we seem to move with it. When I studied physiology beforethere were two hundred and eight bones in the body. Now there are two hundred and thirty- eight.

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#33. I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.

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#34. The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.

Thomas Paine

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#35. The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.

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#36. The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys.

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