"We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: none is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope! Rally to the standard, and be no longer the scoff of mercenary tongues! Be men, be free men, that your children may bless their father's name."

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Source : Sam Houston, Eugene Campbell Barker (1939). “The writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863”

Sam Houston

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“All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.”

Source : "Fictional character: Margo". "All About Eve", www.imdb.com. 1950.
“Deep down, everything boils down ("au fond tout se ramÃ¨ne", Fr.) to the following simple question; Do we really want justice and the realization in this world of higher principles, or else do we want to serve selfish, short-sighted (Ã courte vue", Fr.) interests, which, when all is said and done, are also prejudicial (or detrimental, or harmful) to those very same that pursue them?”
“I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.”

Source : Richard Livingstone (2013). “On Education”, p.101, Cambridge University Press
“The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit.”
“I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.”
“You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.”
“There's no bigger surprise than to be tooling along at 200 MPH and suddenly get hit from the rear”
“Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com

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