"God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same."

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Source : Song: Dead Man Walking

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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“One of the rather unedifying truths about grief is it does block out more or less everything. It has a solipsistic quality to it.”

Source : "Decca Aitkenhead on Empathy and Memory". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 15, 2016.
“In yoga you reach your arms to the heavens and the universe smiles back at you.”
“For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman, as a human being, and even female-was when I was singing.”
“What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a person, irrespective of their mental capacities, but excludes every nonhuman animal - again, irrespective of their mental capacities?”
“For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights of the person you are at the time you see it.”
“There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin are alive today... they are waiting for us to forget, because this is what makes possible the resurrection of these two monsters.”
“History is no criminal court”

Source : Leopold von Ranke (1981). “The secret of world history: selected writings on the art and science of history”, Fordham Univ Pr
“We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.”

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