"The United States, or the American Republic, has a mission, and is chosen of God for the realization of a great idea. It has been chosen not only to continue the work assigned to Greece and Rome, but to accomplish a greater work than was assigned to either. In art, it will prove false to its mission if it do not rival Greece; and in science and philosophy, if it do not surpass it. In the State, in law, in jurisprudence, it must continue and surpass Rome."

-- Orestes Brownson

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“One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things.”
“The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.”

Source : "The dangers of a closed mind" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2009.
“Yet an estimated 99 percent of people who have a problem with eating gluten don't even know it. They ascribe their ill health or symptoms to something else-not gluten sensitivity, which is 100 percent curable.”

Source : "Gluten: What You Don’t Know Might Kill You" by Mark Hyman, MD, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.”

Source : W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.106, New Directions Publishing
“When the doctrine of repentance is fully understood then it is seen that repentance is all that ever needs to be taught for repentance means not only to stop doing those things which are wrong but to start doing those things which are right.”
“Dreams: the place most of us get what we need.”

Source : Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.355, Simon and Schuster
“A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.”
“The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of righteous rage.”

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