One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.

The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

Garrett Graff

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.

Bell Hooks

Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice place to live - not even for the poor on welfare, whose condition seems not noticeably better than when they were poor and off welfare. Something appears to have gone wrong; a liberal and compassionate social policy has bred all sorts of unanticipated and perverse consequences.

Irving Kristol

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

T. E. Lawrence

I will fight for you, yes, and you will fight for me. And if you have sacrificed joy and courage and beauty and wisdom for my sake, I will give them all to you again; and yet you must also give them to me, for they are things in which without you I am wanting. But together we can make them.

Eleanor Farjeon

You can't eat compliments.

Charles Monroe Schulz, (Snoopy)

Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

Charles Horton Cooley

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

A.A. (Alan Alexandra) Milne

Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

Swinnock

Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame

Samuel Johnson

Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.

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