"This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for."

-- Mitch Albom

#Life Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Movies come together and they fall apart. We try to focus on things we love to see. It is, they come together, they fall apart and they come together again and you're with them for a long long time.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.”

Source : "I Am Vulnerable Because I’m Disabled, Not Because I’m a Woman" by Erin M. Kelly, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2014.
“Man is a machine, but a very peculiar machine. He is a machine which, in right circumstances, and with right treatment, can know that he is a machine, and having fully realized this, he may find the ways to cease to be a machine. First of all, what man must know is that he is not one; he is many. He has not one permanent and unchangeable â€œIâ€ or Ego. He is always different. One moment he is one, another moment he is another, the third moment he is a third, and so on, almost without end.”
“The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.”

Source : William Falconer (2012). “Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)”, p.3, BoD – Books on Demand
“I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.”
“Perhaps Communists had wormed their way so deeply into our government on both the working and planning levels that they were able to exercise an inordinate degree of power in shaping the course of America in the dangerous postwar era. I could not help wondering and worrying whether we were faced with open enemies across the conference table and hidden enemies who sat with us in our most secret councils.”
“I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked about, what shaped our days.”
“When another comedian has a lousy show, I'm the first one to admit it.”

Source : TV Series "The Jack Benny Program", 1950.

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