"The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Past Quotes #Civil Rights Quotes #Excuse Quotes

“When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.”
“Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.”
“I'd like to do something to help the worst afflicted, but I can't. It's not possible to save everybody. Even heroes have their all-too-human limits.”
“Put all your eggs in one basket. Then you're less likely to drop that basket.”
“Ð¦hat is my intention being a filmmaker? To make as much money as possible, or get as much attention as possible? It's not really either of those things. Now I can tell the stories that I want to tell.”
“The most important sentence in a good book is the first one; it will contain the organic seed from which all that follows will grow.”
“The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.”
“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”

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