"I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire"

-- Eduardo Galeano

“A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.”

Source : Charles Sumner (2016). “The Complete Works of Charles Sumner”, p.5771, Library of Alexandria
“Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains.”

Source : John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.235, Univ of Wisconsin Press
“The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.”

Source : Reginald Horace Blyth (1995). “The genius of haiku: readings from R.H. Blyth on poetry, life, and Zen”
“I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career.”
“Do not try to drive pain away by pretending it is not real. If you seek serenity in oneness, pain will vanish of its own accord.”
“The basic idea of governance, as I see it, is to hold the society together so that it can develop and march towards certain goals.”

Source : Lal Bahadur Shastri (1967). “Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri commemoration souvenir”
“Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.”
“When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.”

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