"Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Men Quotes #Study Quotes #Selling Quotes

“That was in Crescent City, California, up near the Oregon border. I left soon after. But today I was thinking of that place, of Crescent City, and of how I was trying out a new life there with my wife, and how, in the barber's chair that morning, I had made up my mind to go. I was thinking today about the calm I felt when I closed my eyes and let the barber's fingers move through my hair, the sweetness of those fingers, the hair already starting to grow.”
“Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.”

Source : "An Introduction to Protestant Theology". Book by Helmut Gollwitzer, 1982.
“Because what nobody ever understood is that I, too, wanted to be a somebody. But how do you go through life wanting to be a someone and not knowing how?”
“Nobody likes sweaty coleslaw.”
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”

Source : YouTube Channel "Wall Street Journal"/"Rahm Emanuel on the Opportunities of Crisis", www.youtube.com. November 19, 2008.
“I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.”
“In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.”
“Religion is rarely mentioned in current prime-time dramas or sitcoms that supposedly reflect the way we live now.”

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