"Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts."

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Source : Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

Harper Lee

#Adjectives Quotes #Facts Quotes

“In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.”
“While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do.”
“As soon as I sat down to write music, really, with Café Blue. I just can't think about that when I sit down to write. I don't let myself. I actually don't allow myself to look at sales figures. Ever. I get the general impression that I'm not selling like Norah Jones, but I don't really pay too much attention, because I think it would corrupt me.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.”

Source : Barbara Brown Taylor (2009). “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith”, p.93, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
“Folks in their 60s and 80s are reinventing how older people live.”
“If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.”
“Unlike most readers in Antiquity who read their books aloud, we have developed the convention of reading silently. This lets us read more widely but often less well, especially when what we are reading-such as the plays of Shakespeare and Holy Scripture-is a body of oral material that has been, almost but not quite accidentally, captured in a book like a fly in amber.”

Source : Jaroslav Pelikan (2006). “Whose Bible Is It?: A Short History of the Scriptures”, p.16, Penguin
“Just because we think of wolves (or the wilderness, or another race) as wild and fierce, doesn't mean there isn't another side to them.”

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