"We have ourselves to save."

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Survival Quotes

“The storm will pass and the sun will rise again.”

Source : "David Moyes: Manchester United 'desperate' to reverse fortunes", www.cnn.com. March 17, 2014.
“People think of songwriting as a very personal thing: A guy gets up there with an acoustic guitar and he sings his heart out, bares his soul.”

Source : "The Hold Steady". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2005.
“I cannot find any great difference, on the basis of natural reason and equity only, between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.”
“I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc, is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.”
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
“Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master.”
“In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.”
“It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.”

Source : Cinda Williams Chima (2011). “The Wizard Heir”, p.243, Hachette UK

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