"What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later."

-- Jonathan Kozol

#Jobs Quotes #Taken Quotes #Believe Quotes

“There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.”

Source : Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.15
“We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.”

Source : Wilkie Collins (2015). “Basil: A Story of Modern Life (Unabridged): From the prolific English writer, best known for The Woman in White, Armadale, The Moonstone, The Dead Secret, Man and Wife, Poor Miss Finch, The Black Robe, The Law and The Lady…”, p.9, e-artnow
“In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers.”
“Before Me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great Becoming and you recognize nothing. You are an ant in the after-birth.It is in your nature to do one thing correctly: before Me you rightly tremble. Fear is not what you owe Me, Lounds, you and the other pismires. You owe Me awe.”
“I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that.”

Source : "The Eloquent Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis : A Portrait in Her Own Words" by Bill Adler, (p. 5, 232), 2004.
“Unless we take care to clear the first principles of knowledge from the incumbrance and delusion of words, we may make infinite reasonings upon them to no purpose. We may deduce consequences, and never be the wiser.”

Source : David Berman (1997). “Berkeley”
“I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.”
“Being a liberal progressive has been demonized as anti-white or overly on the side of blacks. There's nothing that can be done about that; it's just where we are in the history of our perceptions.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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