"For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian."

-- Agnes Smedley

#Events Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Week Quotes

“Your Father in heaven knows your name and knows your circumstance. He hears your prayers. He knows your hopes and dreams, including your fears and frustrations. And He knows what you can become through faith in Him.”
“I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.”
“There are no checks and balances if the gov is wrong, if a private entrepreneur makes a mistake, he goes bankrupt, the losses are cut, if he bets wrong, he loses, if the gov bets wrong, they just get bigger, they just appropriate more money, it's a bottomless pit, because they either get it from the tax payers or run it off a printing press.”

Source : Authors@Google Event, 2009.
“The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent”
“All manifestation of fear is a reflection of the fact that humanity has forgotten its spiritual identity. In beginning to remember it, we put fear on notice that its days are numbered.”
“We don't fight for victory, we fight from victory.”
“In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.”

Source : Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”
“There it is. It is useless to ask ourselves why it is we who are here. We are here. There is only us between the airfield and the Japs. If we don't hold, we will loose Guadalcanal.”

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