"I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another?"

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Source : Theodore Martin Hesburgh (1979). “The Hesburgh Papers: Higher Values in Higher Education”

Theodore Hesburgh

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“We are mandating forces to hold regular neighbourhood beat meetings. These meetings will give local people the chance to scrutinise the work of their local police”
“Listen to it, and you are hearing the mighty currents of the air rushing down the latitudes of the earth, currents from the Mackenzie and the Athabasca and the Saskatchewan, and from the prairies and the white Tundra. It is a homeless wind, forever on the move.”
“It's healthy to ditch class now and then." To be precise, it was healthier for humans if vampires ditched on days when human blood would be spilt.”
“You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.”
“It is accepted as an axiom by all Americans that the civil power ought to be not only neutral and impartial as between different forms of faith, but ought to leave these matters entirely on one side, regarding them no more than it regards the artistic or literary pursuits of the citizens.”

Source : James Bryce “The American Commonwealth: Vol. 4: Illustrations and Reflections & Social Institutions”, Jazzybee Verlag
“I don't order fries with my club sandwich.”
“I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.”
“...A fuel-less flame is nothing but a wraith, However wrought, if unsustained by passion.”

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