"One cannot have "success" in poetry. If I wanted to be successful, I'd have become a lawyer."

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Source : Source: www.redividerjournal.org

Cate Marvin

#Successful Quotes #Lawyer Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.”
“You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.”
“His eyes made a slow scan of my closet doors, which were cracked. â€œI thought I heard something.â€ â€œYeah, well, guess what? Iâ€™m a living, breathing person, and every now and then I make noise!”
“Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.”
“Language makes it possible for a child to incorporate his parents' verbal prohibitions, to make them part of himself....We don't speak of a conscience yet in the child who is just acquiring language, but we can see very clearly how language plays an indispensable role in the formation of conscience. In fact, the moral achievement of man, the whole complex of factors that go into the organization of conscience is very largely based upon language.”
“Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in earthly-mindedness, envenomed with malice, exalted in an opinion of thine own righteousness, leavened with hypocrisy and carnal ends in God's service.”

Source : Joseph Alleine (1824). “An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners”, p.170
“Just as in policing there is an emphasis on civilians to help with paperwork, we must free up trained and experienced social workers to focus on children, not bureaucracy.”

Source : "How Whitehall betrayed social workers" by Andy Sawford, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2009.
“If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.”

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