"My mother used to say when we were children, 'When a boy gets a stick in his hand, his brains run out the other end of it.' Power is a stick in the hand, and I have never heard of anybody who wielded a very big stick of power whose brains did not run out the other end. As a nation, our brains are running out the other end of our power right now."

-- Jane Jacobs

#Mother Quotes #Running Quotes #Children Quotes

“When you see something that's so excellent it can be intimidating to walk into it no matter how many people you know.”
“Make every song is your best song to date.”
“I invented a camera that has an exposure time of one hundred years and the camera works in the simplest possible terms, because anything more complicated is more likely to break down in one way or another. It's a pinhole camera that lets in very low light and instead of exposing film, which is going to spoil within a matter of days or weeks, I'm using ordinary black paper.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Most people don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.”
“I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod.”
“If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.”

Source : Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “Works: Devotional works”, p.120
“I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny.”
“Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault.”

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