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“In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base. And so, also, there is a gravity proceeding from thought, which is most noble; and a gravity proceeding from dulness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base.”
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“We go where our family goes. We go where our friends are, and because our social networks are so segregated by race, we end up with what we have. We also find that, you know, if you're immigrants, you're not part of that history.”
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
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“First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.”
Source : "My Chicago: Bill Kurtis On Wrigley, City Violence & Beef". Interview with Erin Chan Ding, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 01, 2011.
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“In the midst of our lives, of our freedom and our struggles, we have to make a radical, absolute decision. And we never know when lightening will strike us out of the blue. It may be when we least expect to be asked whether we have the absolute faith and trust to say yes”
Source : Karl Rahner, Albert Raffelt, Harvey D. Egan (1993). “The Great Church Year: The Best of Karl Rahner's Homilies, Sermons, and Meditations”, Crossroad Publishing Company
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“Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.... Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
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“People say that eyes are windows to the soul.”
Source : Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.7, A&C Black
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“We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.”
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“Somehow the pantsless gay man is not bringing the romance, Scott.”