"Perhaps you have heard about the college executives who were discussing what they wanted to do after retirement age. One hoped to run a prison or school of correction so that the alumni would never come back to visit. Another chose to manage an orphan asylum so that he would not be plagued with advice from parents."

-- Robert H. Jackson

#Education Quotes #Running Quotes #Retirement Quotes

“I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.”

Source : "Ken Livingstone: 'It's an autobiography, not porn'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.
“Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie.”
“Twice in her life she had mistaken something else for it; it was like seeing somebody in the street who you think is a friend, you whistle and wave and run after him, and it is not only not the friend, but not even very like him. A few minutes later the real friend appears in view, and then you can't imagine how you ever mistook that other person for him. Linda was now looking upon the authentic face of love, and she knew it, but it frightened her. That it should come so casually, so much by a series of accidents, was frightening.”
“If it is in the Bible, it is so. It's not even to be prayed about. It's to beÂ received and acted upon. Inactivity is a robber which steals blessings. Increase comesÂ by action, by using what we have and know. Your life must be one of going on from faithÂ to faith.”
“Being from Staten Island and Brooklyn, I'm used to eating pasta and meatballs every single day.”
“The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.”
“If you take a single word...and make it your own on a day-to-day basis, I hope it's choose. Being able to choose to act differently, even while feeling the old way, may be the most liberating growth you can accomplish.”
“We should let our godliness exhale like th odor of flowers. We should live for the good of our kind, and strive for the salvation of the world.”

Source : Alexander Crummell (1861). “The relations and duties of free colored men in America to Africa: A letter to Charles B. Dunbar ...”, p.49

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