"We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Past Quotes #Debt Quotes #Mindfulness Quotes

“One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.”
“I never understood why you would ever feel the need to shoot the fish in the barrel. I mean, they're in a barrel, you've already caught them. The hard work's done, they can't escape. So if you want them dead, just drain the water out. Why bring guns into it?”

Source : Craig Silvey (2010). “Jasper Jones”, p.208, Random House
“We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the finer shades of despair are lost to us. We've ceased to be runners. We plod from structure to conveyance to employment and back again. We live within the boundaries that science has determined for us. The measuring stick is short and sweet. The full gamut of life is a brief, shadowy continuum that runs from gray to more gray. The rainbow is bleached. We hardly know how to doubt anymore. (â€œThe Thingâ€)”
“If you would live in victory . . . you must refuse to be dominated by the seen and the felt.”

Source : Amy Carmichael, David Hazard (2005). “I Come Quietly to Meet You: An Intimate Journey in God's Presence”, p.25, Bethany House
“Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.'”
“I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.”

Source : "The Hollywood hitman". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2000.
“You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly.”
“Christians. Theyâ€™re determined to rid the land of any who worship the Horned One. Murdering all the druids, burning the temples, sometimes whole villages, and knocking over the standing stones.â€ The Ladyâ€™s face hardened. â€œThis god of peace and love certainly likes to bathe the land in blood.”

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