"we expect definitions to tell us not only what is, but what to do about it; to show us how the world fits together and how its different parts connect and work. ... A label is the first step toward action."

-- Elizabeth Janeway

#Together Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Steps Quotes

“Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.”

Source : "Straight Allies: The Importance and the Realities" by Jack Antonoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2012.
“All that means is that I'll be 783 years old when I catch Scotty Bowman.”
“I hated roses. I hated them for being so trite, so clichÃ©d, a default, all-purpose flower that said I love you, I'm sorry, and get well soon. Give me peonies and tulips, orchids or gardenia. Those were flowers with character.”
“To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene of perpetual warfare, and incessant carnage: but the more enlarged view, while it regards individuals in their conjoint relations to the general benefit of their own species, and that of other species with which they are associated in the great family of Nature, resolves each apparent case of individual evil, into an example of subserviency to universal good.”

Source : William Buckland (2003). “The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870: Geology and Mineralogy, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology”, p.112, Psychology Press
“A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.”

Source : E. J. Bellocq, Lee Friedlander, John Szarkowski (1970). “E.J. Bellocq: Storyville portraits, photographs from the New Orleans red-light district, circa 1912”
“An inequality of property is the root and foundation of innumerable evils; it tends to derision, and to keep asunder the social feelings that should exist among the people of God. It is a principle originated in hell; it is the root of all evils. It is inequality in riches that is a great curse.”
“When we walk in the sun our shadows are like barges of silence.”
“Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.”

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