"You must always remain master of the situation and do what you please. No school tasks, ah, no! no tasks!"

-- Edouard Manet

#School Quotes #Tasks Quotes #Masters Quotes

“You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are.”
“We should stop looking to law to provide the final answer.... Law cannot save us from ourselves.... We have to go out and try to accomplish our goals and resolve disagreements by doing what we think is right. That energy and resourcefulness, not millions of legal cubicles, is what was great about America. Let judgment and personal conviction be important again.”
“I carry McCormickâ€™s Pure Vanilla [in my purse]â€”the baking kindâ€”and dab it on my neckâ€¦ Men are attracted to the scent! One time, I put it on and four different guys were like, â€˜You smell amazing!â€™”
“I poo poo the chit.' The attendant looked stunned. 'You cannot poo-poo the chit!' I do.' Kate said solemnly. 'I do poo-poo.' We'll walk.”
“When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.”
“The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.”
“I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.”
“There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing the natural thoughts about self in the thought of One higher than himself, to whose guidance he can commit himself and all men.”

Source : John Campbell Shairp (1871). “Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations”, p.93

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