"You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago."

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Eric Carle

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“When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.”
“Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?”
“...experience should warn us that tough and unpopular decisions are only made under intense political pressure produced by urgent necessity.”
“This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the problem before us.”

Source : "The Integrative Action of the Nervous System". Book by Charles Sherrington (p. 2), 1947.
“My parents are hard workers and they showed me what it means to work hard. I would give a lot of the credit to my parents for where I'm at and who I am. They both worked multiple jobs to make sure me and my siblings were able to play sports and have a home. I'll never forget how hard they worked and that always motivates me.”

Source : Interview with Elias Trejo, www.askmen.com. December 5, 2014.
“It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and good people who have learned the great secret of life. They have found a joy and wisdom which is a thousand times better than any of the pleasures of our sinful life. They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They are masters of their souls. They have overcome the world. These people, Donatus, are Christians. . . and I am one of them.”
“Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.”

Source : Mike DeWine at U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's Hearing on The Nomination of John Roberts to be Chief Justice of The Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2005.
“I like crunchy things like Baked Lays.”

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