"I don't care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn't have to hide who you are."

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Source : "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. December 19, 2010.

Ron Wyden

#Life Quotes #Country Quotes #Risk Quotes

“And death, that sits in marble silence cold, Will furnish hope to those who may behold The meaning in the everlasting change Of all that dies, returning, wondrous strange.”
“I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.”

Source : "We Are Alive" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. July 30, 2012.
“Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.”
“If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are looking for spiritual growth.”
“Oh, please don't goâ€”we'll eat you upâ€”we love you so!”
“Memory must be patchy; what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to oneself, one's own, one's claim to identity, it implicates one's identity in its fibbing.”
“Strange—we are always inhabiting more than one realm of existence—but they all fit in if the art is right.”

Source : Lorine Niedecker (2013). “Lake Superior”, p.52, Wave Books
“Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.”

Source : FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 19, 2014

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