"Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything which was. It not only divides States and churches, it divides families; ay, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine."

-- Henry David Thoreau

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“I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art and culture, because then you feel like everything good already happened. I really just try to be in the present with music and just find the things that are invigorating and make me feel happy to be alive right now.”
“That city is well fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick.”
“The natural is so awesome that we need not go beyond it.”
“If ObamaCare had been fully implemented when I caught cancer, I'd be dead.”

Source : "VIDEO: Herman Cain says he'd 'be dead' under 'ObamaCare'" by Geneva Sands, thehill.com. August 19, 2011.
“Dhoni is one guy who doesn't know the meaning of fear.”
“We're all in this together. Choose love.”

Source : "Jo Dee Messina: On Turning Life into Song". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I think the guys are starting to rally around my leadership style and the way I do things. I've been waiting for this opportunity my whole life.”
“I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.”

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