"Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help."

-- Mahalia Jackson

#Music Quotes #Sight Quotes #Yelling Quotes

“I don't think life is about a pace, living slow or fast. I think you just live, y'know what I mean?”
“Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.”
“It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it drives him on to fury; if he has activity, it makes him a madman, who is frequently as cruel to himself, as he is dangerous and incommodious to others: if, on the contrary, he be phlegmatic or of a slothful habit, he becomes melancholy and is useless to society.”
“I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security.”
“It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.”
“I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.”
“You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.”
“The more money you give to people the better; and the less advice.”

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