"We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound, But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound, Totems of love and hate, black sorcery-stones."

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Source : STEPHEN VINCENT BENET (1928). “JOHN BROWN'S BODY”

Stephen Vincent Benet

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“Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.”
“We'd rather be a band that some people are going to passionately hate than be a ringtone band.”
“Once youâ€™re sensitized to the negative effects of unhealthy choices, it gets easier to turn down what used to seem impossible to resist.”
“As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.”
“A strong egoism is a protection against disease, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order that we may not fall ill, and must fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we cannot love.”
“There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters.”
“Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying, but the important thing is to laugh, every chance we get.”
“If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons.”

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