"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."

-- Merritt A. Edson

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“No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we'll start with forever.”
“When people ask about the aspect of race in the work, they are looking for very simple or easy answers. Part of it is when you think other people are so different than yourself, you imagine that their thoughts aren't the same. When I think about thought, I think about how much there is that is common.”
“I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried.”
“Sometimes I feel like I am on top of the world. Other times it feels like the world is on top of me.”
“There was French kissing, and then there was Cajun French kissing. Spicier, harder, wilder.”

Source : Kresley Cole (2013). “Endless Knight”, p.91, Simon and Schuster
“The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.”

Source : Paul Cézanne, Alberto Giacometti, Felix Andreas Baumann, Poul Erik Tøjner, Tobia Bezzola (2008). “Cézanne & Giacometti: paths of doubt”, Hatje Cantz Pub
“You have risen with all power in Your hands. You have given me a second chance. Hallelujah, hallelujah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Iâ€™m not going back, Iâ€™m moving ahead. Here to declare to You my past is over in You. All things are made new, surrendered my life to Christ. Iâ€™m moving, moving forward.”

Source : Song: Moving Forward, Album: The Power of One, 2009
“I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.”

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