"It wasnâ€™t in books. It wasnâ€™t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world."

-- Robert Fulghum

#Book Quotes #Church Quotes #World Quotes

“I know nothing which can so comfort the soul; so calm the swelling billows of sorrow and grief; so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.”
“People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone.”
“Forgetfulness, the unhistorical, is ... the atmosphere, in which alone life can come into being. In order to understand it, let us imagine a youth who is seized with a passion for a woman, or a man who is swayed by a passion for his work. In both cases what lies behind them has ceased to exist and yet this state (the most unhistorical that can be imagined) is that in which every action, every great deed is conceived and accomplished.”
“To a happy war!" Their laughter flowed out into the night and reached into the pass through the Dancing Maidens, where it echoed around the mountains with all the insane glee of an army of pyschopaths.”

Source : Stuart Hill (2011). “The Icemark Chronicles #2: Blade of Fire”, p.96, Scholastic Inc.
“Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few ... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”
“Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.”
“What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.”
“When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part of our heritage.”

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