"The thing you've got to watch for is going broke when you're old. Look at all the people that go down and out at the finish. The man who built my country place is blind now and penniless. That's terrible!"

-- Pearl White

#Country Quotes #Men Quotes #People Quotes

“Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?”
“When you're 23, 24 years old and somebody's given you a credit card and jets and limos and you don't have to pay the bill when it comes in - that's a pretty nice deal.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 25, 2002.
“We play loud electric guitar music, and we'd hope that that doesn't mean you have to act like an asshole.”
“Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.”

Source : Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press
“Do we live for or do we live off philanthropy?”
“Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the powers of consumerism, the powers of greed and envy and pride. One of the most effective ways for this to come about would be for our universities to assume the awesome responsibility to both validate and educate those who want to be homecomers -- not necessarily to go home but to go someplace and dig in and begin the long search and experiment to become native.”

Source : Wes Jackson (2015). “Becoming Native to This Place”, p.97, Counterpoint
“Of course quality is important but is it not the quality of an individual's originality that is most important?”
“Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothing, never lies for the sake of a pose, and conceals nothing out of coquetry. She stops before the facts as an investigator, sometimes as a physician, never as an executioner, and still less with hostility and irony.”

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