"When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!"

-- August Strindberg

#Long Quotes #People Quotes #Water Quotes

“True patriots believe that we should measure a citizen's worth by contribution to country and community, not by wealth or power-that those whom America has benefited most should contribute in proportion to their good fortune-and that serving others should be esteemed more highly than serving self.”

Source : Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2012). “The True Patriot”, p.20, Sasquatch Books
“I love myself, therefore, I behave in a loving way to all people for I know that that which I give out returns to me multiplied.”
“People write to me all the time, and I write back.”
“To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.”
“Love is to be two and at the same time one.”
“A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. The remarks he makes about his poems are incidental when the poem is good, or embarrassing or absurd when it is bad and he is not permitted to say how the good poem is good, and may never know how the bad poem is bad. It is better to write about other people's poetry.”
“Just like Pagliacci did, I try to keep my surface hid. Smiling in the crowd I try, but in a lonely room I cry.”
“I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.”

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