"Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them."

-- Mark Pryor

#Commitment Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Bravery Quotes

“I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and I'd get distracted and follow a link to a long magazine article about genetically modified wine grapes. Too long, actually, so I'd add it to my reading list. Then I'd follow another link to a book review. I'd add the review to my reading list, too, then download the first chapter of the bookâ€”third in a series about vampire police. Then, help-wanted ads forgotten, I'd retreat to the living room, put my laptop on my belly, and read all day. I had a lot of free time.”

Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.7, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.”
“Anyone who waits for someone else to make a change automatically becomes the follower.”
“Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease.”
“How do you know if a demon is lying? His lips are moving.”
“Instead of thinking that you put pieces together that will add up to a whole, I think you have to start with the premise that they're already together and you try to keep from destroying life by segmenting it, overorganizing it and dehumanizing it. You try to keep things together. The educative process must be organic, and not an assortment of unrelated methods and ideas.”
“If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.”
“Word, image, and sound all must have primacy in the development of the narrative.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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