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When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter
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blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last
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Jacob A. Riis
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Oh, God! That bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!
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Jacob A. Riis (How the Other Half Lives)
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In self-defence, you know, all life eventually accommodates itself to its environment, and human life is no exception.
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Jacob A. Riis (How the Other Half Lives: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions))
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The world forgets easily, too easily, what it does not like to remember.
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Mastery requires patience. The San Antonio Spurs, one of the most successful teams in NBA history, have a quote from social reformer Jacob Riis hanging in their locker room: βWhen nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did itβbut all that had gone before.
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James Clear (Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones)
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He may have been a trifle wild.
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Jacob A. Riis (How the Other Half Lives, Special Illustrated Edition)
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When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it--but all that had gone before.
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Like the Chinese, the Italian is a born gambler.
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Jacob A. Riis (How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York)
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How shall the love of God be understood by those who have been nurtured in sight only of the greed of man?
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Jacob A. Riis (How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York)
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Long ago it was said that "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives." That was true then. It did not know because it did not care. The half that was on top cared little for the struggles, and less for the fate of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat. There came a time when the discomfort and consequent upheavals so violent, that it was no longer an easy thing to do, and then the upper half fell to inquiring what was the matter. Information on the subject has been accumulating rapidly since, and the whole world has had its hands full answering for its old ignorance.
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Jacob A. Riis (How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York)
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Out of forty-eight boys twenty had never seen the Brooklyn Bridge that was scarcely five minutesβ walk away, three only had been in Central Park, fifteen had known the joy of a ride in a horse-car. The street, with its ash-barrels and its dirt, the river that runs foul with mud, are their domain.
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in 1890, of Jacob A. Riisβs How the Other Half Lives. A pioneering urban journalist, Riis, himself an immigrant from Denmark, had taken powerful photographs of tenement life.
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Jon Meacham (The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels)
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Did not the manager of the Fresh Air Fund write to the pastor of an Italian Church only last year{9} that βno one asked for Italian children,β and hence he could not send any to the country?
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Jacob A. Riis (How the Other Half Lives)
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Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
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Kada niΕ‘ta ne pomaΕΎe odem i gledam kamenoresca kako udara ΔekiΔem po velikom kamenu. Udari i stotinu puta, a na kamenu nema ni pukotine. Ipak, nakon stotinu i prvog udarca kamen pukne na pola...ja znam da nije pukao baΕ‘ od toga udarca nego od svih prethodnih koji su zadani.
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When nothing seems to help, I go back and look at the stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it--but all that had gone before.
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The real things of life were getting a grip on him more and more,β Jacob Riis observed. In an essay on βfellow-feeling,β written a decade and a half later, Roosevelt maintained that empathy, like courage, could be acquired over time. βA man who conscientiously endeavors to throw in his lot with those about him, to make his interest theirs, to put himself in a position where he and they have a common object, will at first feel a little self-conscious, will realize too plainly his aims. But with exercise this will pass off. He will speedily find that the fellow-feeling which at first he had to stimulate was really existent, though latent, and is capable of a very healthy growth.β Indeed, he argued that a βvery large part of the rancor of political and social strifeβ springs from the fact that different classes or sections βare so cut off from each other that neither appreciates the otherβs passions, prejudices, and, indeed, point of view.
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Doris Kearns Goodwin (Leadership: In Turbulent Times)
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Reporter Jacob Riis made it his mission to expose the horrors of poverty in New York. New to working with a camera, his flash actually set the walls of One apartment inhabited by five blind people on fire.
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H.W. Brands (American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900)
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Jacob Riis in his How the Other Half Lives
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David McCullough (The Johnstown Flood)
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Never in her life had she seen him this way--without that smirking assurance in his mouth. In his eyes. In his shoulders. He looked like another man; like a boy. Like a poor, beaten little boy no one had ever actually loved; an orphan in a Jacob Riis photograph, patched trousers, smudge-faced.
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Allie Ray (Inheritance)
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Jacob Riis hanging in their locker room: βWhen nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did itβbut all that had gone before
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James Clear (Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones)
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Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before
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The San Antonio Spurs, one of the most successful teams in NBA history, have a quote from social reformer Jacob Riis hanging in their locker room: βWhen nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.19 Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did itβbut all that had gone before.
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James Clear (Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones)
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The San Antonio Spurs, one of the most successful teams in NBA history, have a quote from social reformer Jacob Riis hanging in their locker room: "When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow, it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it -- but all that had gone before.
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James Clear (Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones)
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When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it - but all that had gone before.
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Stone-cutterβs Credo, as described by photographer and activist Jacob Riis as he contemplated the slow pace of social reform: When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
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Rich Diviney (The Attributes: 25 Hidden Drivers of Optimal Performance)
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When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred time without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
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Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without so much a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. βJACOB RIIS
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Peter Matthiessen (Shadow Country)
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The slum is as old as civilization.
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Jacob A. Riis (A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York)
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Reformers believed moral and political relationships were learned in play. Given street-afforded license, kids would grow up bad. βIf we let the gutter set its stamp upon their early days,β Jacob Riis warned in 1904, βwe shall have the gutter reproduced in our politics.β The antidote to the street was the supervised playground. Settlement houses had opened rudimentary play spaces in the 1890s. In 1898 the Outdoor Recreation League (ORL), founded by Lillian Wald and Charles B. Stover and housed in the College Settlement, opened the cityβs first outdoor playground in Hudsonbank Park (at West 53rd Street), whose sand gardens, running track, and equipment were supervised by Hartley Houseβs headworker. Playground proponents insisted the city take over and expand these programs. An 1898 University Settlement report argued: βWaterloo was won in part on the playing fields of Eton said Wellington; good government for New York may partially be won on the playgrounds of the East Side.β In 1902 the city assumed responsibility for the nine ORL playgrounds created to date. And in 1903 Seward Park became the first municipal park in the country to be equipped as a playground.
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Cand totul imi pare zadarnic, privesc cum mesterii pietrari izbesc roca, uneori si de sute de ori, fara ca in ea sa apara o singura crapatura. Apoi, la a o suta una lovitura, piatra crapa in doua, iar eu stiu ca nu acea lovitura a spart-o, ci toate cele de dinaintea ei. - Jacob Riis
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