"There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them."

-- Simon Schama

#War Quotes #Civil War Quotes

“He realized that if he didn't leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs.”
“Find your passion, and it's no longer work.”
“I'm not adopted. But that longing and that sense of absence ... are perhaps other ways of expressing the actualities of my family. Different facts, same emotions.”
“Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.”
“The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.”
“The ambitious man has never found his true vocation...”
“A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.”
“Criticism always hurts most when we deserve it.”

Source : Glenn L. Pace (1995). “Spiritual Plateaus”

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