"It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without Jefferson the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body."

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Source : "Jeffersonian Principles and Hamiltonian Principles". Book edited by James Truslow Adams, p. 17, 1932.

James Truslow Adams

#Men Quotes #Soul Quotes #Vision Quotes

“I didn't even know my bra size until I made a movie.”
“...I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to the possibility of a fusion of the races draws down upon those who suggest it, because nobody pretends to deny that, throughout the South, a large proportion of the population is the offspring of white men and colored women.”

Source : Fanny Kemble (1863). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.14
“I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies. I did it as something that was really rewarding to do, given the opportunity to express myself about something I cared about, and also to learn a lot by watching filmmakers I admired. In a sense, it was my film school. After doing it for a few years, I decided that the time had come to get it together and do some work of my own. Even for a cheap movie, you need film stock and equipment and actors. Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“All the arts, music, the visual arts, acting and dancing arts, cooking arts, and I believe sports, will save the human race because they can leap over barriers, religions, leap over barriers of race, politics.”
“Respect was earned, not demanded, but dignity was taught by example.”

Source : Julie Garwood (2011). “The Prize”, p.29, Penguin
“Presidents are selected, not elected.”
“I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come to few and the example to many.”

Source : Eaton's Case, 22 How. St. Tr. 820-21, 1793.
“The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor, and he was in Colorado.”

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