"Journalists should be people in whom there is at least a flicker of hope."

-- Paul Simon

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“Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.”

Source : John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.372, Simon and Schuster
“Depend only upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things.”

Source : Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.308, Penguin
“There's no committee that says, 'This is the type of person who can change the world - and you can't.' Realizing that anyone can do it is the first step. The next step is figuring out how you're going to do it.”
“We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.”

Source : Stephen Charnock (1815). “The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir”, p.678
“At these times, the things that troubled her seemed far away and unimportant: all that mattered was the hum of the bees and the chirp of birdsong, the way the sun gleamed on the edge of a blue wildflower, the distant bleat and clink of grazing goats.”
“The problem with heartbreak is that nobody can help you when you're heartbroken. Nobody and nothing. Not the films you watch alone desperately searching for a character who feels the way you do, not the glasses or bottles of whisky you keep by your bed and certainly not Instagram.”
“I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.”
“The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.”

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