"For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies."

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Source : Bret Harte (1914). “The Writings of Bret Harte”

Bret Harte

#Sky Quotes #Flags Quotes #Half Quotes

“I like Anastacia's version of Love is Alive best.”
“Think about every time you've seen someone being objectified, abused, enslaved. We see it constantly on the TV, in magazines, on the Internet. We've become numb, so we do nothing. The accumulation of passivity might make reading about that exploitation uncomfortable. And sometimes when I'm writing, I think of it like this: "People seem to like garbage, so here is what garbage smells like..."”
“... the Apostle says, 'he that says he abides in Christ ought himself also to walk as He walked' (I Jn. 2:6). Otherwise we make a vain pretence and show, if we follow not His steps, Whose name we glory in, and assuredly they would not be irksome to us, but would free us from all dangers, if we loved nothing but what He commanded us to love.”
“I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.”
“There is a reason the Democrats have had only two Presidents since 1968 and have managed to lose control of both houses of Congress in recent years. There is a reason they keep snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. And it's not fraud and it's not dirty politics and it's not stupid voters. It's the plain and simple fact that the majority of those who vote don't like them.”
“I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.”
“There is not an alternative to the US as the engine for growth.”
“Right wins only when we dare and act.”

Source : "I Learn". Book by Goparaju Ramachandra Rao, 1976.

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