"The education of youth, an employment of more consequence than making laws and preaching the gospel, because it lays the foundation on which both law and gospel rest for success."

-- Noah Webster

#Education Quotes #Law Quotes #Employment Quotes

“Eating is perhaps the most direct way we acknowledge or deny the sacredness of the earth.”
“If you really believe and really make a commitment, anything can happen.”
“I should at least mention that I am also discovering a degree of strength and of basic ability for humans to remain human in the direst of circumstances â€“ which I also havenâ€™t seen before. I think the word is dignity. I wish you could meet these people. Maybe, hopefully, someday you will.”

Source : "Rachel's war", www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2003.
“A free press is one where it's okay to state the conclusion you're led to by the evidence . One reason I'm in hot water is because my colleagues and I at NOW didn't play by the conventional rules of Beltway journalism . Those rules divide the world into Democrats & Republicans , liberals & conservatives , and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news , they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.”
“Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.”
“Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.”
“When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete... Peace and prosperity, public virtue, victory, everything is in the vigor of the laws. Outside of the laws, everything is sterile and dead.”

Source : Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's remarks on autumn 1792, as quoted in "Oeuvres Completes de Saint-Just", Volume 1, edited by Charles Vellay, 1908.
“When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you have to let him. You can't stop him. In our culture we don't have formal rights of passage like in some ancient cultures. Subjecting yourself to risk... may be something you have to go through to be a man or a woman.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Sep 30, 2011

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