"A mutual friend, Benjamin Rush, brought [Tomas Jefferson and John Adams] together in 1812, and they went on to exchange letters for the rest of their lives. But in their correspondence they tended to avoid the most controversial issues, such as slavery."

-- Gordon S. Wood

#Issues Quotes #Together Quotes #Slavery Quotes

“Don't try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.”
“Design is the term we use to describe both the process and the result of giving tangible form to human ideas. Design doesn't just contribute to the quality of life; design, in many ways, now constitutes the quality of life.”
“The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.”

Source : David Eagleman (2009). “Sum: Tales from the Afterlives”, p.9, Canongate Books
“Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.”
“I've been touted for my guacamole. I'll stand by my method. People have asked me to come to their home and prepare it. Restaurants have asked me about it.”
“Life truly is a journey, and the less baggage we carry the easier the ride.”
“Can I ask you a personal question"? Of all the rhetorical questions in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its simultaneous gesture towards and denial of the trespass that is about to follow.”

Source : Kamila Shamsie (2005). “Broken Verses”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“It takes at least three trees to make a row, and it needs at least three facts to make a truth.”

Source : "West is West".

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