"It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife."

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Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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“Everything you do is challenging, hopefully, because if it's not, it's boring.”

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“Our job should be like any other forensic scientist's - we should be truth seekers who are not partisan, who do not have any interest in the outcome, who call it as we see it no matter the consequences. But it seems a lot easier for chemists and anthropologists and pathologists to take that neutral role than it does for psychiatrists.”
“Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened.”
“I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.”
“I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.”
“This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops”
“We cannot without becoming cats, perfectly understand the cat mind.”
“As the evening mist worked its way into the scene, creating a warm filter through which the lowering sun bathed its light, it was all I could to to keep painting, and not just put my brushes down and soak it all in. Which, of course, I did for a while anyway.”

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