"Teach Scouts not how to get a living, but how to live."

-- Baden Powell de Aquino

#Wisdom Quotes #Teach Quotes #Scouting Quotes

“I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.”
“I dont want to work on a musical if Im not the lyricist.”
“Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.”

Source : Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.387, Delphi Classics
“In the mind of all the English soldiers there is absolutely no hate for the Germans, but a kind of brotherly though slightly comtemptuous kindness - as to men who are going through a bad time as well as ourselves.”

Source : Ivor Gurney, Robert Kelsey Rought Thornton (1991). “Ivor Gurney: collected letters”, Carcanet Pr
“The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there. Resilience might be more useful, in that it assumes a dynamic environment and that perfection is impossible. You need to design systems to accommodate failure rather than eliminate it. By trying to be perfect, many visions of sustainability are quite brittle”
“Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.”
“I like to think about music as a sport. But only in terms of golf, as far as the course being music and me being the golfer. So it's competitive but only with yourself. With the last one doing well, it made it a challenge to feel like I was improving in some way.”
“We found the bathrooms, which were labeled 'Aliens' and 'Femaliens.' 'Finally,' I said to J.Lo. 'Here's a bathroom you're allowed to use.”

Source : Adam Rex (2013). “The True Meaning of Smekday”, p.221, A&C Black

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