"You do not sew with a fork and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles."

-- Henry Beard

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“Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an animal if you use terror, no matter what its level of development may be. That I have maintained, do maintain and always will maintain. People who think you can use terror are quite wrong. No, no, terror is useless, whatever its colour â€“ white, red or even brown! Terror completely paralyses the nervous system.”

Source : Mikhail Bulgakov (2005). “The Heart of a Dog”, Vintage Books USA
“Breakin down the weed about to make a plane, a hundred ***** wit me all reppin taylor gang.”
“One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright.”
“And random bits of happiness, like Finnick and Annie's newborn boy.”
“You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.”
“The American Dream means giving it your all, trying your hardest, accomplishing something. And then I'd add to that, giving something back. No definition of a successful life can do anything but include serving others.”

Source : "Patriarch of a Political Dynasty". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Williamsburg, Virginia, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.
“That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little too wild for you, so there's this tension between what you can do and what the horse decides it's going to do.”

Source : Li-Young Lee, Earl G. Ingersoll (2006). “Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee”, p.128, BOA Editions, Ltd.
“Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.”

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