"I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love."

-- David McCullough

#Thinking Quotes #Water Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I don't have much of an imagination, but I have a mind bank of details, which I play with. It's how I daydream, so writing like that is natural for me.”

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“In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of tactics. Strategy has not to overcome resistance, except from nature. Its purpose is to diminish the possibility of resistance, and it seeks to fulfil this purpose by exploiting the elements of movement and surprise.”
“One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.”
“Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow.”
“I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.”
“My days, if they start in the morning with a cuddle from my son, are just so much more glorious than they were prior to that.”
“No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.”
“If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth.”

Source : Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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