"A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory"

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Source : Whittaker Chambers (1964). “Cold Friday”, New York

Whittaker Chambers

#Memories Quotes #Long Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“The fatherâ€™s job is to teach his children how to be warriors, to give them the confidence to get on the horse to ride into battle when itâ€™s necessary to do so. If you donâ€™t get that from your father, you have to teach yourself.”
“Practice provides the rails on which knowledge flows.”

Source : Laurence Prusak, Katalina Groh, Stephen Denning, John Seely Brown (2012). “Storytelling in Organizations”, p.80, Routledge
“I can kill with a single word. I can hurl a ball of fire into the midst of my enemies. I rule a squadron of skeletal warriors, who can destroy by touch alone. I can raise a wall of ice to protect those I serve. The invisible is discernible to my eyes. Ordinary magic spells crumble in my presence... But I bow in the presence of a master. -- Lord Soth to Raistlin Majere”
“I never even thought the sophomore slump existed. You hear the saying, but you never thought it was for real or anything. But that's kind of what happened to us last year, and I don't know really why that is.”
“Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.”
“But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body”

Source : FaceBook post by Bernhard Schlink from Feb 14, 2012
“Goalkeepers need an element of insanity.”

Source : "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.
“You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.”

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