"Now he belongs to the ages."

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Source : Quoted in Century Illustrated Magazine, Jan. 1890

Edwin M. Stanton

#War Quotes #Civil War Quotes #Age Quotes

“Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.”
“I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.”
“And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses - and that if my readers could feel, taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.”
“The UK has a super strong music culture. I could definitely see myself living there if it made sense.”
“The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.”
“Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.”
“It is not as mirrors reflect us but, rather, as our dreams do, that movies most truly reveal the times. If the dreams we have been dreaming provide a sad picture of us, it should be remembered that - like that first book of Dante's Comedy - they show forth only one region of the psyche. Through them we can read with a peculiar accuracy the fears and confusions that assail us - we can read, in caricature, the Hell in which we are bound. But we cannot read the best hopes of the time.”

Source : Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”
“If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up.”

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