"History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels."

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Source : Jan Christian Smuts (1952). “Jan Christian Smuts: a biography”, William Morrow & Company

Jan Smuts

#Writing Quotes #Quarrels Quotes #Reconciliation Quotes

“The effect on the planet of having one child less is an order of magnitude greater than all these other things we might do, such as switching off lights. The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child.”
“Awareness is the birthplace of possibility. Everything you want to do, everything you want to be, starts here.”
“I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.”

Source : "About Rod Serling". Rod Serling profile at "American Masters", www.pbs.org. December 29, 2003.
“Does my hair look alright? Of course, it looks alright. Why am I asking you for? ...We get lunch right? ...Can we get this thing going? I gotta meet my girlfriend for a martini.”
“Success alone brings expectations. I think that people expect a certain thing from Lloyd - that's music that makes them feel good about their day, even when they're havin' a bad one.”

Source : Source: djbooth.net
“I think part of the reason the Tea Party has resonated is that people feel disempowered. The Tea Party says, "You are out of power because of big government." Then some Democrats tend to respond by saying, "No, you're wrong, you're not out of power." It's a sense that doesn't resonate with people's lived experience.”
“Writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty... It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal thing. There's not the writer and then me; there's just me. All of my life connects to the writing. All of it.”
“I myself and my wife - in order to escape the disgrace of deposition or capitulation - choose death. It is our wish to be burnt immediately on the spot where I have carried out the greatest part of my daily work in the course of a twelve years' service to my people.”

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