"Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime."

-- Leo Tolstoy

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“I don't think about age groups when I write, although I think if I know I'm writing for Children I'll be a bit more ambitious, and think more about every word, because I know that they pay closer attention when they read than adults do.”
“Within three hours of a disaster event there should be a recon damage assessment of the infrastructure and an educated guess as to the casualties and degree of imminent human peril. Then make the airdrops of supplies and personnel. Simultaneously, Seabees would be dropped in, with lights and generators, to begin rescue efforts.”

Source : "We Need An Emergency Boss" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2010.
“Be humble about it. Paint the color tones as they come against each other, and make them sing, vibrate. Don't ask me to look at those self-satisfied, pretty things.”
“Do not reproach a man with his misfortunes, fearing lest Nemesis may overtake you.”

Source : As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, i. 78,
“Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.”

Source : Sissela Bok (2011). “Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life”, p.55, Vintage
“Whatever happened billions of years ago, that's what were we come from. For people who have hate and anger towards each other just because they've been socially conformed or socially... conditioned to their particular country, doesn't mean that you're not like everyone else in the rest of the world and doesn't mean you should go around hating everybody.”

Source : Source: puregrainaudio.com
“A test of your love for God is to examine your love for others.”
“the urgent crowds out the essential.”

Source : Nan Fairbrother (1965). “The House”

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