"The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly."

-- James A. Baldwin

#Past Quotes #Long Quotes #Horrible Quotes

“Success is doing what you said you would do, consistantly, with clarity, focus, ease and grace.”
“I grew up in Russia where you can not be a trash talker because where I grew up if you're a trash talker you should have to answer for your words. If you don't answer for your words you're nobody. You have no respect from your friends, everybody but here in America everybody comes to say everything for free but they will have to pay in the ring for me.”
“Exactly this type of people like you, at the beginning you're gonna be shy but later on you're gonna jump on a chair and you will scream hit him!”
“You know,â€ Cecily said, â€œyou really didnâ€™t have to throw that man through the window.”
“Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars leak.”
“Revision is a good impulse to have.”

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“Rigorous teaching schedules combined with mounds of paperwork can lead to burnout.”
“We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison.”

Source : Jesse Torrey (1819). “The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue and Happiness: Being a Compendium of Moral Science, in Four Parts ... : with an Appendix Containing Directions for the Institution of Free Public Libraries, and Reading Societies : Designed for the Use of Families, and the Highest Classes in Common Schools and Academies”, p.186

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