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It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives. John Adams
However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch – American flag place mats, patriotic “body crystals,” flag stickers you attach to your skin. Personally, I’m small-minded and literal enough that I see the two symbols as contradictory, especially in a time of war. But I fear that the consumer who buys a Confederate flag coffee cup, which she will then put on her American flag place mat, is the sort of sophisticated thinker who is... Sarah Vowell
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure..."
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Ernest Hemingway
How crucial for us to rehearse the future, in words. Never to doubt that you will live to utter them. Never to doubt that you will tell your story. Joyce Carol Oates
I still think it's important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of marriage in patriarchal society? because once you marry within a society that remains patriarchal, no matter how alternative you want to be within your unit, there is still a culture outside you that will impose many, many values on you whether you want them to or not. Bell Hooks
The days went by for him, all different and all the same. The boy was happy, and yet he didn't know that he was happy, exactly: he couldn't remember having been unhappy. If one day as he played at the edge of the forest some talking bird had flown down and asked him: "Do you like your life" he would not have known what to say, but would have asked the bird: "Can you not like it? Randall Jarrell
John Atkinson quote: "If you don't run your own life, someone else will"
If you don't run your own life, someone else will John Atkinson
Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it? Tennessee Williams
C. S. Lewis quote: "It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you..."
It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god. C. S. Lewis
Truman Capote quote: "It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose..."
It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year. Truman Capote
Martin Amis quote: "When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. ..."
When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour. Martin Amis
Tommy Lee quote: "Just because we are wearing lipstick doesn't mean we can't..."
Just because we are wearing lipstick doesn't mean we can't kick your ass! Tommy Lee
P. J. O'Rourke quote: "A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady, and left off..."
A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady, and left off the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat. P. J. O'Rourke
I'm asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington . . . I'm asking you to believe in yours."Keeping faith with those who serve must always be a core American value and a cornerstone of American patriotism. Because America's commitment to its servicemen and women begins at enlistment, and it must never end. Barack Obama
Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. Deepak Chopra

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