"In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly-people who were uninjured in the cataclysm from an unknown something which I can only describe as the atomic plague."

-- Wilfred Burchett

#Cities Quotes #People Quotes #Dying Quotes

“To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is an unchristian conception of love. That is the aesthetic definition and therefore fits the erotic and everything of that nature. But to the Christian love is the works of love. Christ's love was not an inner feeling, a full heart and what not, it was the work of love which was his life.”
“You'll probably get three horses and you have to draw a good buckin' horse. That's mighty tough.”
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

Source : "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.
“Bad music can make you weak.”
“What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea - the skill to transform it into something more than merely the insight or perception alone.”
“We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.”

Source : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.1, Simon and Schuster
“I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they're almost like a little chive.”
“The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.”

Source : John Bingham (1999). “The Courage To Start: A Guide To Running for Your Life”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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