"The reason why the race of man moves slowly is because it must move all together."

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Source : Thomas Brackett Reed, Mrs. Susan Prentice Merrill Reed (1911). “Orations and addresses”

Thomas Reed

#Moving Quotes #Men Quotes #Race Quotes

“It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.”
“If we do not know what the sorrow of penitence is, we have been living only on the surface of life--unmindful of its deep realities, unconscious of its grander glories.”
“How was I to know that I'd be ok? I thought I'd lose it all when you walked away. How was I to know that I'd be this strong? I had what it takes all along. How was I to know?”
“The gossamer web of life, spun on the loom of sunlight from the breath of an infant Earth, is nature's crowning achievement on this planet.”
“Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.”
“Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...”

Source : "Jaws 2" film's tagline, www.imdb.com. June 16, 1978.
“In my view a jazz musician is a great musician”
“The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.”

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