"It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die"

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Source : "South Africa: Extremes in Black and Whites" by Scott Macleod, Time Magazine (p. 38), content.time.com. March 9, 1992.

Steven Biko

“When custom has made familiar the charms that are most attractive, when youthful freshness has died away, and with the brightness of domestic life more and more shadows have mingled, then ... and not till then, can the wife say of the husband, "He is worthy of love;" then, first, the husband say of the wife, "She blooms in imperishable beauty.”

Source : Timothy Shay Arthur (1888). “The Wedding Guest: a Friend of the Bride and Bridegroom”
“People say I train dogs, but in many ways I train people.”
“Your trading needs to boil down to rules, money management, and that is it.”
“...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.”
“Sickness disgusts us with death, and we wish to get well, which is a way of wishing to live. But weakness and suffering, with manifold bodily woes, soon discourage the invalid from trying to regain ground: he tires of those respites which are but snares, of that faltering strength, those ardors cut short, and that perpetual lying in wait for the next attack.”
“The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity”
“Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.”

Source : "Camera Lucida". Book by Roland Barthes, www.theguardian.com. 1980.
“The Constitution enjoins an oath upon all the officers of the United States. This is a direct appeal to that God Who is the avenger of perjury. Such an appeal to Him is a full acknowledgement of His being and providence.”

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