{"id":6559,"date":"2012-08-31T07:19:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T11:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=6559"},"modified":"2013-09-15T08:23:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T12:23:14","slug":"collected-quotes-julyaugust-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2012\/08\/31\/collected-quotes-julyaugust-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Collected Quotes July\/August 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

My main page on quotes is\u00c2\u00a0Quotes to Make You Think<\/a>. Additional ones can be found under the\u00c2\u00a0Quotes<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0tag.<\/p>\n

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I read like a wolf eats.
\nI read myself to sleep every night.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00c2\u00a0Gary Paulsen<\/a><\/p>\n

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00c2\u00a0Saint Thomas Aquinas<\/p>\n

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00c2\u00a0Anne Morrow Lindbergh<\/p>\n

I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wrong end, impaling themselves on its point in order to prove the perfidy of the other. \u00e2\u20ac\u2022 Salman Rushdie,\u00c2\u00a0Fury<\/em><\/p>\n

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t move until you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve reached page fifty. Until you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u2022\u00c2\u00a0Carol Shields<\/a><\/p>\n

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u2022\u00c2\u00a0E.E. Cummings<\/p>\n

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s right.\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u2022\u00c2\u00a0Isaac Asimov<\/p>\n

Good news travels fast; bad news travels faster.<\/p>\n

We are drowning in information, but starved for knowledge.\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00c2\u00a0John Naisbitt<\/a><\/p>\n

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00c2\u00a0Hunter S. Thompson<\/a><\/p>\n

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00c2\u00a0George Bernard Shaw<\/a><\/p>\n

There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done…It is necessary that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes; it is still more necessary that such laws should be thoroughly enforced. Corporate expenditures for political purposes…have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs…\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00c2\u00a0Theodore Roosevelt, speech at Osawatomie, Kansas, “The New Nationalism” (August 31, 1910)<\/p>\n

You were once wild, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let them tame you\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Isadora Duncan<\/p>\n

Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00c2\u00a0Martin Amis<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to all the friends and inspirations who shared quotes: Anthony, Patrick, Janice, Alina<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My main page on quotes is\u00c2\u00a0Quotes to Make You Think. Additional ones can be found under the\u00c2\u00a0Quotes\u00c2\u00a0tag. I read like a wolf eats. I read myself to sleep every night. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00c2\u00a0Gary Paulsen There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00c2\u00a0Saint Thomas Aquinas If you surrender completely to the moments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[2380,3035],"class_list":["post-6559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-posted-2012","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-1HN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}