"The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth."

-- James Thurber

#Humor Quotes #Artist Quotes #Depth Quotes

“When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not going to last long in that company.”
“Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.”
“As far as I'm concerned, any Aboriginal that gets out there and accepts money that has been put out as a package for this bicentenary is actually accepting blood money. We've still got people with leprosy and we still got tremendous problems. These problems have not been our problems, they're the problems of the European population of Australia.”
“Work until your idols become your rivals”
“The tax that is taken from the free non-Muslim subjects of a Muslim government whereby they ratify the compact that assures them protection, as though it were compensation for not being slain.”

Source : "An Arabic-English Lexicon". Book by Edward William Lane, Book I Part II, Jizya, p. 422, 1865.
“There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.”
“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
“If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.”

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