"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire."

-- Ernest Hemingway

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“Surely there is a fitness in the institution of the Lord's Supper as a standing memorial by which the church at large may commemorate the grandest act, and by which the heart of each individual believer may be reminded of his dearest friend. You, who have learned to love the Saviour, will prize His ordinance for the Saviour's sake. You who rejoice in the salvation purchased by His dying, will not fail with gratitude and faith to show the Lord's death until He come.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 371), 1895.
“You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.”
“Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn't be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn't.”
“How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.”
“I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.”
“History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.”
“We prepare our students for jobs and careers, but we don't teach them to think as individuals about what kind of world they would create.”

Source : Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”, p.227, PublicAffairs
“I live in Brooklyn, New York. It is a melting pot of cultures and people. I walk down the street, and there is art on the buildings and people congregating who have been neighbors for years and events and music and freedom.”

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