"A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created by external advantages; it is no necessary appendage of birth, wealth, talents, or station; but it is the result of one's own endeavors-the fruit and reward of good principles manifested in a course of virtuous and honorable action."

-- Josiah Johnson Hawes

#Character Quotes #Parent Quotes #Principles Quotes

“I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction due to technology, our souls are shrunk and flattened by its pervasive rule. Any sense of wholeness and freedom can only return by the undoing of the massive division of labour at the heart of technological progress. This is the liberatory project in all its depth.”

Source : John Zerzan (1994). “Future primitive: and other essays”
“Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .”
“They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won.”
“You must become an expert on a product, service or anything you write about to really be effective.”

Source : Joseph Sugarman (2012). “The Adweek Copywriting Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Powerful Advertising and Marketing Copy from One of America's Top Copywriters”, p.30, John Wiley & Sons
“When I first came to Washington in the 1960s, even at the height of the Vietnam War, until the end there in '68 there was a certain climate of cooperation. And then in the late sixties and in through the seventies, politics began getting more mean. And then from the eighties on it seemed to be institutionalized, this personal attack business. And I just hate it.”
“It's true that the pain makes people change”
“The moment you say microfinance everybody wants to help you.”

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