"What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life."

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Source : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

Alice James

#Form Quotes #Proportion Quotes #Given Quotes

“Honor your commitments with integrity.”
“In my experience, the skill of success breaks down into three things. The skill of marketing. The skill of sales. And the skill of leadership.”
“The jobless recovery in Maine is much more of a reality than we thought it was.”
“There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.”

Source : "Local hero". Interview with Demetrios Matheou, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2001.
“I am always cautious.”
“I have always liked sport and only played or run races for the fun of the thing.”
“If you think of most murders as being between people who know each other, it's very easy to figure out who the killer is. But when you have a murder that appears random, where the person is not someone that's within the known radius of the victim, then it's much, much more difficult to solve.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.”

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