"Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I declare that security, guarded of course by its offspring, freedom, is the true end and aim of government."

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Source : Charles Sumner (1856). “Last Three Speeches on Kansas Ad Freedom: Feb. 7th, March 6th, and May 19th & 20th, 1856”, p.619

Charles Sumner

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“Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.”
“You've got to suffer for your art sometimes!”

Source : Source: www.comedy.co.uk
“The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.”
“All our losses and sufferings will be made up to us in the resurrection.”
“There is always time for a nap.”

Source : Suzy Becker (1990). “All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat”, Workman Publishing Company
“Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me.”
“Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.”

Source : Matthew Scully (2011). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.314, Souvenir Press
“Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.”

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