"Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives."

-- Laurie Anderson

#Inspirational Quotes #Book Quotes #Learning Quotes

“...it may be that there is no God, that the existence of all that is beautiful and in any sense good is but the accidental and ineffective byproduct of blindly swirling atoms, that we are alone in a world that cares nothing for us or for the values that we create and sustain - that we and they are here for a moment only, and gone, and that eventually there will be left no trace of us in the universe. A man may well believe that this dredful thing is true. But only the fool will say in his heart that he is glad that it is true.”
“The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.”
“Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands.”
“It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.”
“I think people like to think I'm in some way financially dependent on my family - on my dad - but the fact of the matter is I've been emancipated from my father since I was 14 years old. That's something people don't know or understand.”
“During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective,...”

Source : "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.
“He is inexperienced, but he's experienced in terms of what he's been through.”

Source : "Fab, and Not So Good, Really" by Paul Doyle, Tom Lutz, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2007.
“Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.”

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