“If writers were good businessmen, they’d have too much sense to be writers. ” ~~ Irvin S. Cobb, author and journalist (1876-1944)
Submitted by safaa.
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“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” ~~ Plato
Submitted by Annie Lin.
“We should build more schools than courts or prisons.” ~~ PG Yeoh
Submitted by PG Yeoh.
“An illiterate person is a prisoner to their own ignorance.” ~~ Sara M. Sabbagh
Submitted by Sara M. Sabbagh.
“I’ve decided that the stuff falling through the cracks is confetti and I’m having a party!” ~~ Betsy Cañas Garmon
Submitted by Joann Barnett.
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Submitted by Cindy Coffey.
“I served with General Washington in the legislature of Virginia before the revolution, and, during it, with Dr. Franklin in Congress. I never heard either of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point which was to decide the question. They laid their shoulders to the great points, knowing that the little ones would follow of themselves.
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150. lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected. ” ~~ Thomas Jefferson
Submitted by Whole Cloth.
“My colleague Mercer was one of those afflicted with the morbid rage of debate, of an ardent mind, prompt imagination, and copious flow of words, he heard with impatience any logic which was not his own. Sitting near me on some occasion of a trifling but wordy debate, he asked how I could sit in silence hearing so much false reasoning which a word should refute? I observed to him that to refute indeed was easy, but to silence impossible. ” ~~ Thomas Jefferson
Submitted by Whole Cloth.
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