"A few slave holders were undeniably cruel. Examples of slaves beaten to death were not common, neither were they unknown. The majority of slave holders treated their slaves well."
Glen Chambers
"Instead they choose to accept their fallibilities. They recognised the simplicity and power of using a checklist."
Atul Gawande
"Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art."
Austin O'Malley
"Any thing or behavior too complex to understand becomes a phenomenon that could be termed spiritual or magical."
Bryant McGill
"[T]he more critical lesson I learned that day is still one too many kids never figure out: don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing."
Sonia Sotomayor
"There are two kinds of fools: one says 'This is old therefore it is good' the other says 'This is new therefore it is better.'."
Dean William R. Inge
"You can't just constantly judge a situation or a person because of what you're used to or how they look. They might turn out to be this sweet man who asks you what your dreams are. You know?"
Sasha Lane
"In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function."
Michael Graves
"Talking is like playing on the harp there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music."
Anonymous
"Democracy requires citizens to see things from one another's point of view, but instead were more and more enclosed in our own bubbles. Democracy requires a reliance on shared facts; instead were being offered parallel but separate universes."
Anonymous
"Have a very good reason for everything you do."
Laurence Olivier
Suetonius
"Photography is a major force in explaining man to man."
Edward Steichen
"Resentment is the little fire that can transform and destroy the world by becoming a wildfire."
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