"Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter."

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Source : Said before the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805, in G. L. Newnham Collingwood (ed.) 'A Selection from the Correspondence of Lord Collingwood' (1828) vol. 1, p. 168

Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

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“God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.”

Source : Evelyn Underhill (1960). “The Mount of Purification”
“I'm pretty intentional about being highly invested in my kids' lives.”
“I forgot he [Barack Obama] was black tonight for an hour.”
“Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.”
“I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.”
“Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.”
“In some ways, the great danger for this commodified universe is our boredom with it ... There is this sort of dialectic that you could tease out, that even in this overdeveloped late-capitalist world, that boredom was still this kind of critical energy that you could work on and try to theorize and then act on, to find other kinds of belonging, other kinds of desire, other kinds of life.”
“Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.”

Source : Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley (2011). “The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, G.C.B”, p.531, Cambridge University Press

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