"There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together."

-- Josh Billings

#Funny Quotes #Witty Quotes #Educational Quotes

“A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.”
“Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them.”

Source : Jerome Groopman (2003). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, p.7, Random House
“...This jewel is the wisdom and compassion that it takes to act not on behalf of ourselves but for all beings. This is where real confidence and competence come from. Once we possess this jewel, our life becomes blessed.”
“The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent - that of total separation of Church and State. No religious establishment by law exists among us. The conscience is left free from all restraint and each is permitted to worship his Maker after his own judgement.”
“Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.”
“The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.”

Source : "Peace: 1991-1995". World Scientific publication, p. 338, 1997.
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
“All his life Robert Grainier would remember vividly the burned valley at sundown, the most dreamlike business heâ€™d ever witnessed wakingâ€”the brilliant pastels of the last light overhead, some clouds high and white, catching daylight from beyond the valley, others ribbed and gray and pink, the lowest of them rubbing the peaks of Bussard and Queen mountains; and beneath this wondrous sky the black valley, utterly still, the train moving through it making a great noise but unable to wake this dead world.”

Source : Denis Johnson (2012). “Train Dreams”, p.30, Granta Books

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