"The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer."

-- Beatrice Webb

#Ordinary Quotes #Half Quotes #Waste Quotes

“Hysteria, epilepsy, tuberculosis, and cancer were all found to result from the erratic propensities of a past life.”

Source : Max Heindel (2016). “Occult principles of health and healing”, p.96, Max Heindel
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”

Source : Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.85, Shambhala Publications
“If you want to play somebody's music, you'd better go into his house.”
“That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures.”

Source : Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax
“The moment this House undertakes to legislate upon this subject slavery, it dissolves the Union. Should it be my fortune to have a seat upon this floor, I will abandon it the instant the first decisive step is taken looking towards legislation of this subject. I will go home to preach, and if I can, practice, disunion, and civil war, if needs be. A revolution must ensue, and this republic sink in blood.”

Source : James Henry Hammond (1836). “Remarks of Mr. Hammond, of South Carolina, on the Question of Receiving Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia”, p.12
“Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.”

Source : Deborah Hitzeroth, Thurgood Marshall, Sharon Leon (1997). “Thurgood Marshall”
“Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.”
“I realize Im an ambitious guy, but I just try to take things as they come, you know, for the most part.”

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