"But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve."

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Arthur Miller

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“I think my soul never was in such an agony before. I felt no restraint, for the treasures of divine grace were opened to me. I wrestled for absent friends, for the ingathering of souls, for multitudes of poor souls, and for many that I thought were the children of God, in many distant places. I was in such an agony, for half an hour before sunset, till near dark, that I was all over wet with sweat: but yet is seemed to me that I had wasted away the day, and had done nothing. Oh!, my dear Savior did sweat blood for poor souls!”
“Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don't want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That's not really interesting for me.”
“I always played the ugly sister instead of Cinderella or the Wicked Witch. But those are the parts I love, and actually, to be a character actress, you have more longevity, hopefully.”

Source : "Talented British actress Lucy Punch packs a wallop". Interview with Michael Ordoña, www.sfgate.com. June 19, 2011.
“There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.”
“What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something that cannot be reconciled with a reductive naturalism, for reasons distinct from those that entail the irreducibility of consciousness. It is not merely the subjectivity of thought but its capacity to transcend subjectivity and to discover what is objectively the case that presents a problem....Thought and reasoning are correct or incorrect in virtue of something independent of the thinker's beliefs, and even independent of the community of thinkers to which he belongs. (p. 71)”
“Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.”
“I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it.”

Source : "Christopher and His Kind". Book by Christopher Isherwood, p. 306, 1976.
“The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.”

Source : George Bancroft (1851). “History of the United states”, p.340

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