"When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathe News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been anticlimax."

-- Flannery O'Connor

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“In a just cause it is right to be confident.”
“I myself won't do anything, but I won't stop anyone else from acting.”

Source : "Plotting Hitler's Death: The Story of German Resistance" by Joachim C. Fest, (p. 128), 1997.
“I have taken your advice, and the names used are anode cathode anions cations and ions; the last I shall have but little occasion for. I had some hot objections made to them here and found myself very much in the condition of the man with his son and ***** who tried to please every body; but when I held up the shield of your authority, it was wonderful to observe how the tone of objection melted away.”
“When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.”
“Badass is a juvenile aspiration.”

Source : Gabrielle Hamilton (2011). “Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef”, p.195, Random House
“When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.”

Source : United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1965). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”
“When we decided to take up arms, it was because the only other choice was to surrender and to submit to slavery.”
“It is the great work of nature to transmute sunlight into life. So it is the great end of Christian living to transmute the light of truth into the fruits of holy living.”

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