"I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more."

-- William Shenstone

#Years Quotes #People Quotes #Causes Quotes

“History is a continuum, it's not these separate moments. That's how we look at it. In the 1700s in Virginia before there were police officers - there were these groups of men who would wander the countryside - and if they saw a black man or a black woman they would presume that that black man or woman was a slave. If you didn't have the kind of pass that you were supposed to have, then you could be whipped, you could be enslaved, you could be taken into custody - even if you were free. And as I'm reading this I find myself thinking, "How is this any different from stop-and-frisk?"”
“Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen was uncapped my thoughts had shifted to rocks.”

Source : William Beebe (1921). “Edge of the Jungle”
“You're going to go through times when you don't do too well, or you may have some slumps or get outpitched. Just keep going up there and having your at-bats, keep having your same approach and keep trying to make little adjustments like you do during the season.”

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
“I'm not a philanthropist. While I care about the poor, the issue of local or global poverty doesn't keep me up at night.”
“The day I stop feeling the pressure and I'm just enjoying myself and taking it easy is when I'm 35, asking for a wild card and playing mixed doubles with Arnaud Clement.”
“It's just one of those deals where I have to keep moving and keep looking. It's a lot about timing and a lot about boat-positioning, and I'm just trying to get fish to react to several different baits.”
“Deploring other people--their lack of perfection--had always been our sport.”
“silence is not weakness and decency is not pride”

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