"The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted."

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Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt,p. 653-54, Curiosities of Literature, 1922.

Isaac D'Israeli

#Care Quotes #Return Quotes #Originals Quotes

“If bumblebee leavings and stump paste are so good for you, why can't any of those guys (in the health stores) grow full beards?”
“I'm not loved by Hillary Clinton... and I don't love her either.”
“There is always the threat of tomorrow's treachery, or next year's treachery, or the treachery implicit in all the tomorrows beyond that.”
“My lifetime listens to yours.”

Source : Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.129, Northwestern University Press
“All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull we only pray as well as we live.”
“My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.”
“Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that nature is some kind of minded entity. That nature is not simply the random flight of atoms through electromagnetic fields. Nature is not the empty, despiritualized , lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of mind.”
“Society becomes how you behave.”

Source : Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2011). “The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government”, p.48, Sasquatch Books

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