"Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?"

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Henry David Thoreau

#Air Quotes #Doe Quotes #Breathe Quotes

“I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.”
“When our grandchildren ask us where we were when the voiceless and the vulnerable in our era needed leaders of compassion and purpose, I hope we can say that we showed up, and that we showed up on time.”

Source : Gary Haugen, Gregg Hunter (2010). “Terrify No More: Young Girls Held Captive and the Daring Undercover Operation to Win Their Freedom”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc
“If I learn 1,000 techniques with my luck I'll go out on the street and be attacked by number 1,001.”
“In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.”
“Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line.”

Source : Alice McCall (2009). “Wellness Wisdom”, p.18, Alice McCall
“One more thing. The people and the friends that we have lost... or the dreams that have faded... never forget them.”
“My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely know the nature of the metaphor when I begin to write, but there is an attentiveness that a writer develops, a sudden alertness that is much like the feel of a fish brushing against a hook.”

Source : "Poetry Questions: Stephen Dobyns" by Rebecca Foresman, www.newyorker.com. April 2, 2012.
“America must remain, at any cost, the custodian of freedom, human dignity and economic security. The United States must be strong, so that no nation may dare attack.”

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