"I didn't want to write a book. They made me do it."

-- Grace Slick

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“Love of country cannot be a supersized version of individual narcissism. True love of country-of this country-is love of our children, of a creed that promises them a better life before it promises us anything, and embraces the sacrifices needed to make that better life. True love of country is giving ourselves to a cause and a purpose larger than ourselves. And that cause is to make liberty worth having, to make the pursuit of happiness deeper than the quest for personal pleasure, and to leave a legacy of progress and possibility.”
“I think it's perfectly possible for us to stay outside of power politics, or parliamentary politics, and speak about things like the American hegemony in the region or speak about the unjust war on terror that's been brought to our borders.”
“Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.”
“The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”

Source : "The Night Circus". Book by Erin Morgenstern, September 13, 2011.
“These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.”
“Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.”

Source : Kate Atkinson (2013). “Life After Life”, p.577, Random House
“First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe.”

Source : Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.144, Simon and Schuster
“The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.”

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