"New Orleans could wreck your liver and poison your blood. It could destroy you financially. It could shun you or embrace you, teach you tricks of the heart you thought Tennessee Williams was just kidding about. And in August it could break your spirit."

-- Julie Smith

#Heart Quotes #New Orleans Quotes #August Quotes

“Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The nonprofit professional volunteer world is a laboratory for self - realization.”
“When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions.”
“There is no place for [the Bantu] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour ... What is the use of teaching the Bantu child mathematics when it cannot use it in practice? That is quite absurd. Education must train people in accordance with their opportunities in life, according to the sphere in which they live.”
“Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.”
“Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.”
“I think the artist's job throughout history has been to tell - to say things that people are inspired by.”
“And I start to say, no. Start to ask him to please just take it off and put it away. Start to explain how it holds far too many memories for me. But then I remember what Damen said once about memories - that they're haunting things. And because I refuse to be haunted by mine - I just take a deep breath and smile when I say, "You know, I think it looks really good on you. You should defiantly keep it.”
“Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.”

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