"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction."

-- Douglas MacArthur

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“We are commanded to love God with all our strength, heart, mind and soul and our neighbor in the same way God loves us - it is the same love flowing between God and the soul - the soul and its neighbor. It is difficult, but the burden of the cross is light compared to the cross of uncontrolled emotions, anger, insistence on one's own opinion, the frustration of trying to change others rather than being changed oneself, resentment, regrets and guilt. Accepting the present moment like Jesus did is certainly a lighter burden.”
“Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry.”
“If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.”
“I tell my agent that I want to read everything.”
“You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing.”
“Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart.”
“The Government which attacks its own innocent subjects has no claim to be called a civilised government. Bear in mind, such a government does not survive long. I declare that the blows struck at me will be the last nails in the coffin of the British rule inÂ India.”

Source : "Under the Shadow of Gallows". Book by Gulab Singh, p. 40, 1963.
“The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.”

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