"In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below."

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Source : "In Flanders Fields" l. 1 (1915)

John McCrae

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“A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles by which the world is governed.”
“I am very excited and delighted to be an important part of the development of corporate America.”
“In order for romance to deepen, you must touch the heart and mind of your wife before you touch her body.”
“What swells inside me is a love so boundless, I am the sunrise and sunset. I am Liberty Bell in the Cascades. I am Beihai Lake. I am every beautiful, truly beautiful, thing I've ever seen, captured in my personal Geographia, the atlas of myself.”
“Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.”

Source : Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.17
“My wife said, 'Can my mother come down for the weekend?' So I said, 'Why?' And she said, 'Well, she's been up on the roof two weeks already.'”

Source : "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.
“I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.”
“For in grief nothing 'stays put.' One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?”

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