"Again and again [Tomas] Jefferson deftly sidesteps many of [John] Adams's often provocative remarks. They both felt the correspondence, which was written for posterity, was too important to risk by being too candid with one another."

-- Gordon S. Wood

#Risk Quotes #Important Quotes #Provocative Quotes

“[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called for while they work. Such are the workers who all day stand or sit, stoop or are bent double, who run or ride or exercise their bodies in all sorts of [excess] ways. ... the harvest of diseases reaped by certain workers ... [from] irregular motions in unnatural postures of the body.”
“At the end of the day, the markets are my passion.”
“Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.”
“I live to harass white folks.”

Source : Derrick A. Bell, Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic (2005). “The Derrick Bell Reader”, p.471, NYU Press
“Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.”

Source : Dick Francis (1986). “A jockey's life: the biography of Lester Piggott”, Putnam Pub Group
“I've retroactively made all that wasted time rotting my brain into research. It makes me a hypocrite when I try to tell my own daughter, "I don't know, I think we've played a little too much Mario."”
“A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good.”
“The fastest growing political party is no party.”

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