"Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better word."

-- Miriam Toews

#Art Quotes #Honesty Quotes #Children Quotes

“I believe in taking care of myself and teaching other people who want to learn. I don't believe in just printing money and giving money. I'm willing to teach those who are willing to learn. If you're not willing to learn, then go vote for Obama. I'm not Republican or Democrat, so don't get me wrong.”
“A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.”
“When we tell our own story, we teach the values that our choices reveal, not as abstract principals, but as our lived experience. We reveal the kind of person we are to the extent that we let others identify with us.”
“The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.”
“We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.”

Source : FaceBook post by Chris Bohjalian from Jul 29, 2016
“The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of Government. But what is Government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?”
“A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.”
“We don't want to impose our solutions by force, we want to create a democratic space. We don't see armed struggle in the classic sense of previous guerrilla wars, that is as the only way and the only all-powerful truth around which everything is organized. In a war, the decisive thing is not the military confrontation but the politics at stake in the confrontation. We didn't go to war to kill or be killed. We went to war in order to be heard.”

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