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Jacob Braude
"Thanksgiving, to be truly Thanksgiving, is first thanks, then giving."
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Source : Jacob Morton Braude (1966). “Speaker's desk book of quips, quotes, & anecdotes”
Jacob Braude
#Giving Quotes
#Firsts Quotes
#Thanks Quotes
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“The reason I don't want anyone to control me is not because I want to be in control. I don't want anyone to control me because I don't want anyone to control anyone.”
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“I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day.”
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“A feverish, fearless writer, Justin Taylor delivers 'blessed pleasure' in translating the 'baffling Christ babble' in The Gospel of Anarchy, a novel whose shiftless characters, in search of completion and contentment, must wrestle with that prerequisite of faith: a willingness to believe in the unseen.”
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“There is one class of men who from time to time have taken a keen and practical interest in the constitution of the Family, and they are the Statesmen. They have realized how intimately the welfare of the State depends upon the influence and nature of the Families from which it is constituted; and they have endeavoured that the State in turn should mould and influence the Family to its own purposes.”
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“Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.”
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“The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.”
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“What country is stabler than Iran? Where else in the world would an assassinated prime minister be so quickly replaced?”
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“You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth.”
