"...you can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands..."

-- John M. Geddes

#Distance Quotes #Anger Quotes #Hands Quotes

“I try to make what I have written tighter, stronger and more precise, eliminating every element that's not doing useful work. Then I go over it once more, reading it aloud, and am always amazed at how much clutter can still be cut.”
“Fidelity to the law of your own being is an act of high courage flung in the face of life.”
“Events in the early 1990s in New York City, Texas, and Florida appear to have raised, in the eyes of CBS News, for example, the question of whether religion as such is incompatible with good social order.”
“There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin are alive today... they are waiting for us to forget, because this is what makes possible the resurrection of these two monsters.”
“True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.”
“Losers are winners who quit,...even if you lose...you still win...if you don't quit.”
“Polo really is a European sport. It's not really that popular in America. I'm not an expert on the sport, but it's fun to watch.”
“To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a more pronounced lack of sensitivity in underestimating (ourselves and others) than in overestimating.”

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