"The man who has given himself to his country loves it better; the man who has fought for his friend honors him more; the man who has labored for his community values more highly the interests he has sought to conserve; the man who has wrought and planned and endured for the accomplishment of God's plan in the world sees the greatness of it, the divinity and glory of it, and is himself more perfectly assimilated to it."

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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 130), 1895.

Richard Salter Storrs

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“Concentration is born on the practice court... you must mentally treat your practice sessions as matches, concentrating on every ball you hit.”
“It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.”
“Aiyyo, camoflouge chameleon, ninjas scalin' your building, No time to grab the gun, I already got your wife and children”
“I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.”
“It hardly seemed fair, because, unlike a horse or a Seeing Eye dog, the whole glory of being a bird is that nobody would ever put you to work.”
“Many Europeans think that all Moroccans speak French, but no. I had to make an effort to learn it when I studied French literature at the university in Rabat.”

Source : "No one is capable of freeing oneself from society". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. October 7, 2014.
“I had retail businesses. They were beauty businesses, skin care and all that. I got into that as a fluke. I was going to open up a gym. I just had a Men's Fitness cover come out that was the third bestselling of Men's Fitness covers.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.”

Source : William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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