"Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense."

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Source : "John and Edward Rutledge of South Carolina". Book by James Haw, p. 269, 1997.

Edward Rutledge

#Defense Quotes #Posture Quotes #Firm Quotes

“Sometimes it helps to begin our prayers by confessing we don't feel like praying-and ask God to help us with our preference to be doing something else.”
“Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.”
“Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang KÃ¶hler. I need not emphasize my debts to these outstanding personalities. The fundamental ideas of Gestalt theory are the foundation of all our investigations in the field of the will, of affection, and of the personality.”

Source : Kurt. Lewin, (2013). “A Dynamic Theory of Personality - Selected Papers”, p.231, Read Books Ltd
“If you do a joke that's really old, then what happens is people on Reddit and Twitter just go, 'Real original, you're just doing old jokes!' But bands do it all the time.”
“When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career.”
“You'll live astride the line that separates life from death. You'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. You won't wait until people die to grieve for them; you'll give them their grief while they are still alive, for then judgment falls away, and there remains only the miracle of being.”

Source : Rana Dasgupta (2011). “Solo”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“One of my favorite songs I've ever done is "Who Says," and I was 17 when I recorded that song. It was just so exactly what I felt, during that time. That's when I knew how powerful music is.”
“When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.”

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