"If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely hold us in check."

-- Thomas Jefferson

#Moving Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Squad Quotes

“Is it not meningitis?”
“I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.”

Source : Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.355, Scholastic Inc.
“Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine.”
“I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired.”

Source : "Tracy Chevalier: 'Slavery has to be raised until it's put to bed'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2013.
“The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.”
“What we see in the outer is but a reflection of the inner, because we surround ourselves with a picture of our own beliefs. In other words, we manifest in general what we seriously think and believe. So if we want to find out what our habitual thinking is like, we have but to look around us and ask ourselves what we really see.”

Source : Emmet Fox (1952). “Stake your claim”, Harpercollins
“I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.”
“If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.”

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