If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Jacques Barzun
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  1. Rise and rise again until lambs become lions - Robin Hood

  2. The strong-minded rise to the challenge of their goals and dreams. The weak-minded become haters. - Steve Maraboli

  3. Fire wants to burn Water wants to flow Air wants to rise Earth wants to bind Chaos wants to devour Cal wants to live - Cassandra Clare

  4. Each timewe bow to thefeet of anythingwe find riveting, the mind rises tobe surprised withnew crowningdiamonds ofcreativity. - Curtis Tyrone Jones

  5. Some bow to the spirit of collectivism, while you ascend to the spirit of your own eclectic rhythms. - Curtis Tyrone Jones

More Quotes By Jacques Barzun
  1. Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

  2. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

  3. Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form of injustice.

  4. Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

  5. What we ask of a writer in the first place is a unique voice. We ask for the rest later, and we may even pretend that it is only the later things we required -- no personal, individual, induplicable quality, just pure art.

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