"The seeds of first instructions are dropp'd into the deepest furrows."

-- Martin Farquhar Tupper

#Firsts Quotes #Instruction Quotes

“One thing about me, as far as my career is concerned, is that I'm very confident. I know I'm good.”
“It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.”
“To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.”
“In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it's not about being an individual or being ambitious.”
“Disco is just pop music you can dance to.”
“The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.”
“I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot.”
“The death penalty experiment has failed.”

Source : "Bruce Edwin Callins v. James A. Collins 510 U.S. 1141". The U.S. Supreme Court case No. 93-7054, www.law.cornell.edu. February 22, 1994.

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