"He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength."

-- Cormac McCarthy

#Said Quotes #Misfortunes Quotes

“Gov. Christie says 'New Jersey First.' State-based Isolationism!”
“There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.”

Source : Charles Alexander Eastman (2010). “Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience Illustrated”, p.160, World Wisdom, Inc
“I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world.”
“The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.”
“Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they do sometimes.”
“I was playing in the beginning, the mood all changed”
“Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some of the most difficult things that have happened to me.”
“But although we have noticed the ark as being the first ship, we cannot with propriety place it in the front of the history of navigation. After the flood the ark seems to have been soon forgotten, or at least imperfectly remembered, and men reverted to their little canoes and clumsy boats, which sufficed for all their limited wants. It was not until about a thousand years later in the world”

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