"In the attic, a warhead no doubt burns. Everything is combustible. Faith burns. Trust burns. Everything burns to nothing and even nothing burns. . . . And when there is nothing, there is nothing worth dying for and when there is nothing worth dying for, there is only nothing."

-- Tim O'Brien

#Love Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Dying Quotes

“In fact, itâ€™s the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.”
“Be of love a little more careful than of anything.”
“Weâ€™ve got to stick together, thatâ€™s all I know. We all drive each other crazy at times, but I donâ€™t want to end up here alone, like the Hermit. Then this really would be Hell. Humans do such terrible things to each other that sometimes my brain tells me they must be evil. But my heart still isnâ€™t convinced. I just hope we can survive.”
“My skin doesn't look as good when I'm not eating enough fruits and vegetables, so I try to eat plenty.”
“Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.”
“The natives are very exact and punctual in the bounds of their lands, belonging to this or that prince or people, even to a river, brook, &c. And I have known them make bargain and sale amongst themselves for a small piece or quantity of ground; notwithstanding a sinful opinion amongst many, that christians have right to heathen's lands.”

Source : "The Book of the Indians of North America". Book by Samuel G. Drake, 1835.
“Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath.”
“People sometimes ask me if I would not give anything to be white, I answer, in the words of the song, most emphatically, 'No.' How do I know what I might be if I were a white man? I might be a sand-hog, burrowing away and losing my health for $8 a day. I might be a street-car conductor at $12 or $15 a week. There is many a white man less fortunate and less well equipped than I am. In fact, I have never been able to discover that there was anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.”

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