"It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike."

-- Thomas Browne

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“I have a really, really difficult time with dramaturgy sometimes in America, because I write about other cultures. I write about a culture that is very difficult, it is very foreign to a North American. A lot of people don't know about what's happening.”
“I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.”
“Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.”
“I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.”

Source : "George Washington's Generals and Opponents: Their Exploits and Leadership" by George Athan Billias, (p. 219), 1994.
“"There's been a quantum leap technologically in our age, but unless there's another quantum leap in human relations, unless we learn to live in a new way towards one another, there will be a catastrophe."”
“It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.”
“The very fact of a Christian being here, and not in Heaven, is a proof that some work awaits him.”

Source : William Arnot (1873). “Laws from Heaven for Life on Earth: Illustrations of the Book of Proverbs”, p.278
“You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same journalists who build you up between Monday and Friday tear you down for weekend fun...My family's habit of living in the past seems to me pathological, even dangerous. If all greatness lies in the past, what is the point of the future?”

Source : "The Emperor of Ocean Park". Book by Stephen L. Carter, 2002.

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