"The martial spirit is never dead. It sleeps through fortunate generations, but it wakes up very quickly to the toot of a fife. There's that roistering spirit in men which leads them to think a good fight is a lark - until they've been in one. And the impulse to fight for your own incarnation of an ideal."

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Source : Margaret Ayer Barnes (1933). “Within this Present”

Margaret Ayer Barnes

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“Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.”
“I pride myself in taking care of my mind, body and soul, and not just through exercise.”
“Although here - Los Angeles 2014 - we can have a lighthearted movie about romance and living your life without persecution, that freedom does not exist in the rest of the world and not even in the rest of our country. There are places where they are going backward, away from freedom. Places where same-sex couples are beaten, killed, not allowed to raise families, forced to hide their lifestyle.”
“I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.”

Source : Yunus Emre (1989). “The Drop that Became the Sea: Lyric Poems of Yunus Emre”, Shambhala Publications
“As Australians, we must not leave our children worse off. Thatâ€™s not fair. That is not our way.”

Source : "Budget 2014: Joe Hockey's speech and reaction - as it happened" by Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2014.
“The headlines are never in the news! And so, what I am saying is the news is never on the headlines”
“In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.”
“A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.”

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