"Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees."

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Source : Faith Baldwin (1935). “American Family”

Faith Baldwin

#Running Quotes #Autumn Quotes #Flames Quotes

“In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.”
“I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.”
“Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.”
“You've got to break through this idea of being light as a ballerina. The heavier you'll feel, the lighter you'll look.”
“Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.”
“We are reducing the number of relationships. We are slowly but surely consuming the massive reserves of energy that have been accumulating and are stored in the ecosystems.”
“Portugal was born in the shadow of the Catholic Church and religion, from the beginning it was the formative element of the soul of the nation and the dominant trait of character of the Portuguese people.”

Source : "Salazar: speeches, notes, reports, theses, articles and interviews, 1909-1955: Anthology" by António de Oliveira Salazar, Editorial Vanguarda, (p. 212), 1955.
“You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.”

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