"Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize."

-- James A. Michener

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“Forgiveness is the path to healing.”
“... accepting and feeling sympathy and love is not so healing as giving it.”

Source : Ruth Draper, Dorothy Warren (1999). “The Letters of Ruth Draper: Self-portrait of an Actress, 1920-1956”, p.147, SIU Press
“Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.”

Source : John Boyle O'Reilly (1886). “In Bohemia”
“I fully expect to be doing yoga for the rest of my life.”
“My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad.”

Source : "Jeb Bush's forgotten father-in-law" by Michael Kruse, www.politico.com. March 19, 2015.
“Without risk, we are automatons going through our days with no purpose or meaning. We are safer, perhaps, but we are also, ironically, closer to death.”

Source : Sarah Strohmeyer (2008). “The Sleeping Beauty Proposal”, p.210, Penguin
“I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.”
“Mission starts with determining what you really care about and want to accomplish and committing yourself to it. You can always develop expertise. First, discover your preference.”

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