"The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library"

-- Maya Angelou

#Children Quotes #Communication Quotes #Library Quotes

“As an american, you're born aiming so high - boys want to play in the major leagues, girls want to be princesses. We're cultivating little champions. It's like the land of little champions.”

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“I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.”
“Most of us can't even begin to imagine.”
“If you are to use Alexander Graham Bellâ€™s product, which is to say the blower, you should, in all courtesy, use it as he would have wished; and Dr Bell insisted that all phone calls should begin with the words â€˜Ahoy, ahoyâ€™. Nobody knows why he insisted this â€“ he had no connection to the navy â€“ but insist he did and started every phone call that way. Nobody else did, and it was at the suggestion of his great rival Edison that people took to saying â€˜Helloâ€™. This seems unfair.”

Source : Mark Forsyth (2012). “Mark Forysth's Gemel Edition: The Etymologicon and The Horologicon ebook bundle”, p.334, Icon Books Ltd
“My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.”
“A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.”
“Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For some of us, this may mean ridding ourselves of most of our possessions. But for all of us it should mean dedicating everything we retain to further the kingdom. (For true disciples, however, it cannot mean hoarding or using kingdom assets self-indulgently.)”
“The things you get fired for when youâ€™re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when youâ€™re old.”

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