"To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Book Quotes #Giving Quotes #House Quotes

“Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond.”
“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”
“See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.”
“A lot can happen [ because of the dysfunctional family]. People don't look at that. They think, "Oh, my kids are going to be fine. My kids are resilient." But at a certain point, the damage starts. They start to feel pain - and when they feel bad, they start to take painkillers. We want to kill the pain.”
“The names that do the serious damage are the ones we call ourselves. The stereotypes we give ourselves are the ones that matter in the long run, not the ones imposed on us by other people.”

Source : Judith Rich Harris (1999). “The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do”, p.251, Simon and Schuster
“I can't compare my life growing up in Leimert Park to someone in Imperial Village Projects; we don't have the same options and I understand that. You do what you do based on survival and instincts. If I know something, I try to share it and give that opportunity and enlightenment to whomever I'm around, some people might not want to hear it but once you know something, you have the option to do better.”

Source : Source: lasentinel.net
“The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.”

Source : "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.
“Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.”

You may also like:

Aristotle
Philosopher
Julius Caesar
Roman dictator
Lucretius
Poet
Plato
Philosopher
Plutarch
Biographer
Sallust
Politician
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher
Tacitus
Historian
Virgil
Poet