Quote by Holbrook Jackson
Genius is initiative on fire. - Holbrook Jackson

Genius is initiative on fire. – Holbrook Jackson

Other quotes by Holbrook Jackson

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this. – Holbrook Jackson

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Vices
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A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with “a sort of greedy enjoyment,” as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was “saturated with the bouquet of silence.” – Holbrook Jackson

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Books
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The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practised at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness. – Holbrook Jackson

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Books
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Other Quotes from
Intelligence
category

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. – Janis Joplin

Category:
Intelligence

Primitive does not mean stupid. – S.A. Sachs

Category:
Intelligence

Weve done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA. – Michael Chertoff

Category:
Intelligence

I did my military service from 1989 – 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence. – Oded Fehr

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Intelligence

Random Quotes

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone. – Dan Savage

Category:
alone

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. – Eugenio Montale

Category:
Poetry

My moms collard greens. No one else in the world can make them like hers. Im not just saying that because shes my mom. Shes got some Mississippi secret. I could seriously eat them every day. – Santigold

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mom

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. – John Milton

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Prudence