"I'll do what little I can in writing. Only it will be very little. I'm not capable of it; and if I were, you would not go near it at all. For if you did, you would hardly bear to live"

-- James Agee

#Writing Quotes #Littles Quotes #Bears Quotes

“The heart of science is measurement.”
“Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.”
“A total absence of self-doubt is the first sign of insanity.”
“Democracy, as I understand it, requires me to sacrifice myself for the masses, not to them. Who knows not that if you would save the people, you must often oppose them?”
“There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.”
“We made basement practice songs.To have them presented in such a huge fashion today - like at Primavera, where it's thousands of people in a festival environment - is surreal. I never thought some of the songs would ever need to be projected at such a volume or to such a wide span of people.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”

Source : "The Common School Journal and Educational Reformer" edited by William B. Fowle, 1852.
“No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.”

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