"At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago."

-- David Herbert Donald

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“Beneath the greatest love lies a hurricane of hate.”
“People who achieve access to the deepest roots of their freedom can completely change.”

Source : Peter Koestenbaum (1974). “Existential sexuality; choosing to love”
“There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help.”

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
“I think I am in my last days, but it doesn't really matter because I have had such a beautiful life.Â I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times - including my husband, my mother and my beloved son.Â Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy.Â I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate.Â Life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful.Â Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.”

Source : "Alice Herz-Sommer: 'Everything we experience is a gift we should pass on'" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2014.
“Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain, Of his unrivall'd pencil. He inspires Their balmy odors, and imparts their hues, And bathes their eyes with nectar, and includes In grains as countless as the seaside sands, The forms with which he sprinkles all the earth Happy who walks with him!”
“Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.”

Source : Letter to Horace Walpole, 25 February 1768, in H. W. Starr (ed.) 'Correspondence of Thomas Gray' (1971) vol. 3, letter 471
“Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.”
“I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.”

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