"Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. Though it carries the woman close to the brink of death, motherhood also leads her into the very realm of the fountains of life and makes her co-partner with the Creator in bestowing upon eternal spirits mortal life."

-- David O. McKay

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“Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.”

Source : 9/11 Address to the Nation, delivered 11 September, Oval Office, Washington, D.C.
“But when you personalize your life, when you make your life a place where you can be yourself, when you do things the way you want to do them, your life feels like your home. And that is a tremendous source of emotional energy.”

Source : Mira Kirshenbaum (2008). “The Emotional Energy Factor: The Secrets High-Energy People Use to Beat Emotional Fatigue”, p.56, Delta
“Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”
“All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm ...”

Source : Letter to Sir William Temple, October 1653
“My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.”
“What you expect is what you will get.”
“Poetry is the scholar's art.”

Source : Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.248, Vintage
“Non-ambiguity is the shaping force of reality.”

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