"War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible."

-- Charles Sumner

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“They say there are only two kinds of people on St. Patrick's Day: the Irish, and the people that drive them home.”
“Without investment there will not be growth, and without growth there will not be employment.”

Source : "Coca-Cola CEO: Act to fix unemployment" by Ramy Inocencio, www.cnn.com. February 6, 2013.
“I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I donâ€™t think thatâ€™s healthy.”
“Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.”
“We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.”
“A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.”
“I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.”
“Temples and churches have become social centers. They have lost their original purpose because the minds of the people are more attracted to worldly things than to prayer. The lips repeat the prayer mechanically like a phonograph record, but the mind wanders to other places. (23-24)”

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