"I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured."

-- James A. Garfield

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“Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?”
“Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only testing ground for the heroic is the mundane. The only preparation for that one profound decision which can change a life, or even a nation, is those hundreds of half-conscious, self defining, seemingly insignificant decisions made in private. Habit is the daily battleground of character.”
“It bothers me when the Hollywood elite are all so against people having guns and want rigorous gun restrictions.”

Source : "Alana Stewart: Hollywood honchos 'hypocritical' when it comes to guns". Interview with Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. January 30, 2013.
“If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.”
“Internet users, that blue screen of death you were looking at this morning? That's the sky. If you're still confused, look it up on Wikipedia tomorrow.”
“Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.”
“The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.”
“When we turn to our innate wisdom for the harmony of mind and gut, we heal the entrance to the heart as it seeks to beat in rhythm with the world.”

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