"You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of."

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Source : Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.391, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Robert Penn Warren

“We have an energy policy - we're transferring our wealth to overseas to a bunch of countries that don't have the same values as us. In some cases, they're using our money to finance terrorism against us.”
“My children are most important to me. I'm a mother and I adore my children. I live for them.”
“I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress.”
“December stillness, teach me through your trees That loom along the west, one with the land, The veiled evangel of your mysteries. While nightfall, sad and spacious, on the down Deepens, and dusk embues me where I stand, With grave diminishings of green and brown, Speak, roofless Nature, your instinctive words; And let me learn your secret from the sky, Following a flock of steadfast-journeying birds In lone remote migration beating by. December stillness, crossed by twilight roads, Teach me to travel far and bear my loads.”

Source : Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”
“In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost.”
“...Hardly. A ragged apron does not a waiter make.”
“God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change. The secret conversation is thus entirely spiritual; it is a direct encounter between God and the soul, abstracted from all material constraints.”
“There has never been just 'coach class' health care, but with these amenities you are seeing people get priorities according to your ability to pay. It's one thing to say you get perks; it's another to say you can buy your way to the head of the line.”

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