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“'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.”
Source : Van Wyck Brooks 'New England Indian Summer' (1940) p. 418 n.
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“Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.”
Source : Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Thousand Cranes”, p.31, Vintage
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“Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.”
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“in a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection ...”
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“Always Sir Arthur lost so much blood that it was a marvel he stood on his feet, but he was so full of knighthood that knightly he endured the pain.”
Source : Thomas Malory (2009). “Le MORTE DARTHUR: the Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table [volume 1 Of 4]”, p.93, Lulu.com
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“We went to South America on a trip and all I had was a Robert Johnson album. So that's a definite influence on the album. My bandmates John [Stanier, drummer] and Henry [Bogdan, bassist] were interested in expanding their roles as writers, so that had a positive impact on the record.”
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“When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only in suffering will we know Jesus.”
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“The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.”
