"It's easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out."

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Cynthia Lewis

#Teaching Quotes #Trying Quotes #Sticks Quotes

“Rough Johnson, the great moralist.”
“A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.”

Source : William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.38, Ludwig von Mises Institute
“I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that will be distributed equally throughout the world.”
“Machinery may make for efficiency and a standardisation of life, but horse love is a bond of freemasonry which unites the entire race ...”
“For now, Lady Queen," he said, "allow us to continue to obey you. But give us honorable instructions, Lady Queen," he said, turning a flushed face to hers. "Ask us to do honorable things, so that we may have the honor of obeying you.”
“Solutions are not the answer.”
“It's the little things that you do that can make a big difference. What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do today that will make you more effective? You are probably only one step away from greatness.”
“If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then itâ€™s really finished as a force for grappling with the world.”

Source : "'There Is Another World in Our World': A Conversation with J. M. Ledgard" by Philip Gourevitch, www.newyorker.com. April 30, 2013.

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