"The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please."

-- Willa Cather

#Writing Quotes #Caring Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.”

Source : Jenny Han (2010). “The Summer I Turned Pretty”, p.133, Simon and Schuster
“I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.”
“Books + friendship = book club”
“Modern technology has conveniently provided a measuring stick by which you can determine whether or not you are conducting your business in an acceptable, ethical way. . . . You can ask yourself: How will I feel if my business dealings today are secretly recorded on a hidden video camera, and appear on this evening's television newscast for all to see?”
“The whole thing about bullying is: yes, the culture has to change. Yes, teens have the power to change it. Itâ€™s not going to happen overnight, but this is definitely something that I want to start motivating teens to do today." - Publisher Weekly”
“Spending comes just as natural to liberals in Minnesota and the Minnesota legislature as bashing decency comes to the editorial board of our major metropolitan newspapers.”
“I love the students - they are remarkable, inspiring people. I would miss teaching if I stopped doing it. The kind of work I do is pretty diverse: I can cast a play while doing a polish of a screenplay, while thinking about a new play and revising another. In other words, the kind of work that I do during my work day is not just writing, yet it is all part of the job of being a playwright.”
“Speech sounds can be analyzed into fundamental units called phonemes; these move around like protozoa in a drop of water, and, like protozoa, join together and split up.”

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