"First fight. Then fiddle."

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Gwendolyn Brooks

#Fighting Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Fiddle Quotes

“Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted.”

Source : Isaiah Berlin (1991). “The crooked timber of humanity: chapters in the history of ideas”, Random House Inc
“There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.”
“If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing.”
“It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.”

Source : Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1990). “A road to the future: address by Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ... at the plenary meeting of the Forty-third session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, Wednesday, December 7, 1988”
“Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.”
“George Burns was the father I never had”
“I'm always tempted to say, 'Nah, that won't work.' But I think you should be willing to try ideas out before saying no. Be open-minded.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“Kids do say the darndest things”

Source : Art Linkletter, Mark Victor Hansen (2007). “How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life”, p.255, Thomas Nelson Inc

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