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There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny. ↗

— Gaylord Perry

#difference #grand #larceny

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. ↗

— Tom Peters

#around #building #cause #common #community

If you look at casualties, you find countries that had much higher loss rates per capita than the US. Denmark comes to mind, the United Kingdom, they have suffered heavy losses at various points, the Germans as well. ↗

— David Petraeus

#casualties #comes #countries #denmark #find

Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately. It's still the way I write, actually. ↗

— Liz Phair

#bedroom #developed #even #i #i write

I played with the same band for years and years and there's a beauty to having one solid core that you keep exploring. On the other hand, it's nice to throw yourself in different situations where you find out things about your own resources. ↗

— Grant-Lee Phillips

#band #beauty #core #different #exploring

George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#george-macdonald #suffering #art

Aeschylus writes, "In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grade of God. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#suffering #wisdom #art

I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not. ↗

— Phillip Phillips

#been #drums #electric #electric guitar #guitar

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life. ↗

— Plautus

#affairs #every #every man #friend #however

It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original. ↗

— Bernard Pivot

#difficult #everyone #original #very