"Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves."

-- Bruce Catton

#War Quotes #History Quotes #Soldier Quotes

“The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.”
“All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.”

Source : "Claire Tomalin: 'Writing induces melancholy. You're alone, a hermit'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2011.
“Stairway to Wisdomâ€) David Brooks detailed the needed ingredients to gaining a deep understanding of a social problem, beginning with the data and moving on to first-hand accounts. The highest rung on his stairway, though, went beyond those: â€œEmpathy opens you up to absorb the good and the bad. Love impels you not just to observe but to seek unionâ€”to think as another thinks and feel as another feels.”
“I think that my experience as a single mom getting into relationships in an impoverished district with men that don't have options resonates with people. I don't get into the deadbeat dad thing. I don't think men innately decide to be irresponsible fathers. I think there's a backstory. They're given really bad choices. It's less deadbeat dads and more unemployed fathers, and some fathers decide to sedate and give up.”

Source : Source: www.patheos.com
“Quantum wellness isnâ€™t about deprivation and itâ€™s not about perfection. It is about pointing yourself in the direction of growth, training yourself to get comfortable with your highest potential, and then taking small steps to support that shift. Itâ€™s about showing up for yourself, day by day, and then one day finding that youâ€™ve undergone a transformation.”
“The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google's evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like.”
“I had fewer female clients. I don't know why. It was always the men who chose me. And the ones whose secrets I had to hold. I represented Sophia Loren. She was jailed in Caserta for 17 days.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.”

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