"There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past."

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Source : Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.47, Broadview Press

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“I had the opportunity to play every day in the minors, and everybody knew me in the minors. In the big leagues, it was a little different. It was up and down and up and down, and I didn't get a chance to show people that I can play every day and I can be a superstar. Now, I can show everybody what they are getting from me.”
“Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge”

Source : Patricia Cornwell (2009). “Postmortem”, p.59, Simon and Schuster
“Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices.”
“Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.”

Source : Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”
“Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy.”
“You don't get a lot of suicidal vampires.”
“I think there's been a gigantic shift in the way we talk to each other, and the way that we communicate with each other. So as a filmmaker, the stuff's always been really interesting to me, and I sort of considered a lot of my films horror films, the ones that were relationship dramas, because I feel like it was very easy to look at modern communication and the Internet and cell phones and all that stuff as horror movies, basically.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.”

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