"The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told; I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart...."

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William Butler Yeats

#Green Quotes #Hunger Quotes #Ugliness Quotes

“As I tell people about genocide, I get the opportunity to redeem myself. Iâ€™ve had the chance to do something thatâ€™s worth me being alive... The more I tell people, the less the nightmares haunt me.”

Source : Loung Ung (2012). “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers”, Random House
“It is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law. It is at just such times that the constitutional right to self-defense is most precious and must be protected from government overreach.”

Source : "Gov. Rick Scott rejects request to ban concealed weapons outside GOP convention in Tampa", www.foxnews.com. May 2, 2012.
“It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.”
“Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.”
“They came in the thousands from the whole human race to pay their respects at his last resting place.”
“To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.”
“True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
“Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.”

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