"I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor."

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Source : Svend Petersen, Edward Everett (1963). “The Gettysburg addresses: the story of two orations”

Edward Everett

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“People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.”
“The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.”
“It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“See, I never gain an ounce, because, you know, my anxiety acts like aerobics.”
“Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.”
“How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called fools for having imagined it could be brought to use: if it should be turned to account, we shall be ridiculed for having doubted.”
“You can listen to a birdsong, and from the content of the birdsong, you will be able to determine whether or not the bird grew up in a noise-polluted environment or whether it grew up in a pristine, clean environment. Isn't that incredible?”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.”

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