"But as I wrote the book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet], I tried to write it as clearly and directly and passionately as possible just thinking of communicating to readers who might want to learn about this great thinker and be inspired by him as I was."

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Source : Source: www.slate.com

Jeffrey Rosen

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic.”
“I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.”
“The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.”
“I loved Bonny, and I always prayed that God would sneak in there and get a little light in her life.”
“There is no reward equal to that of doing the most good to the most people in the most need.”

Source : Evangeline Booth, Grace Livingston Hill (1919). “The War Romance of the Salvation Army”
“Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.”
“Everywhere in the world the industrial regime tends to make the unorganized or unorganizable individual, the pauper, into the victim of a kind of human sacrifice offered to the gods of civilization.”
“Those whom God calls to such a ministry - and a call is essential - must be prepared for a pathway of unpopularity and misunderstanding. "You troubler of Israel" was the way Ahab addressed Elijah.”

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