"The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God."

-- Will Durant

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“Some of my fondest and most impressionable movie memories are from those early sci-fi and horror films. I've always been a Dracula/vampire aficionado, being half-Romanian myself. Dracula has always been close to my heart - in fact, I have a first edition of Bram Stoker's book. I read it over and over again as a young kid.”
“Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.”
“I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.”
“In the time of battle the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, or whereever the men are too much exposed to the view or fire of the enemy.”

Source : William Falconer (2012). “Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)”, p.143, BoD – Books on Demand
“We all travel different roads to our ultimate destinations. For some of us the path is rockier than for others. But no one reaches the end without feeling some form of adversity. So rather than fight it, why not accept it as the way of life? Why not detach yourself from the outcomes and simply experience every circumstance that enters your life to the fullest?”
“I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.”

Source : Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Secret in the World”, p.22, Bantam
“Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.”

Source : Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.272, Delacorte Press
“Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.”

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