"Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that."

-- Pearl Cleage

#Writing Quotes #Discipline Quotes #Paper Quotes

“At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.”
“As children we all wonder - we wonder all the time. And that gets lost in adulthood. It gets beaten out, it gets filtered out or diluted out.”
“But George Lucas is carrying about Black actors, about Black men, about Black history, which really incorporates and tells all of history. You can't take one race out without eliminating every other race if you're going to tell the story of the human race.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“You need a strong family because at the end, they will love you and support you unconditionally. Luckily, I have my dad, mom and sister.”
“Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.”

Source : Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.100, New York Review of Books
“When you're having trouble and topping the ball, it means the ground is moving on you.”
“Many years ago I sent an old, beloved jacket to a cleaner, the Sycamore Cleaners. It was a leather jacket covered in Guinness and blood and marmalade, one of those jobs... and it came back with a little note pinned to it, and on the note it said, 'It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.' So that will do for me. That can go on my tombstone.”
“But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.”

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