"Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of what men were, but it did not go as men had planned."

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Source : Bruce Catton, James M. McPherson (1960). “The Civil War”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Bruce Catton

#War Quotes #Moving Quotes #Greatness Quotes

“...if I survived the Marines, I can survive Ali.”
“I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.”

Source : "An Interview with Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys". Interview with David Flumenbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2008.
“I think it's great to be able to go and watch a short film before you watch a feature.”
“Spring is a beautiful piece of work; and not to be in the country to see it done is the not realizing what glorious masters we are, and how cheerfully, minutely, and unflaggingly the fair fingers of the season broider the world for us.”
“Gold diggers are the wife beaters of men!”
“There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.”
“If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.”
“But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.”

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