"Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made."

-- William Lyon Mackenzie King

#Attitude Quotes #War Quotes #Rehabilitation Quotes

“The real person you are is revealed in the moments when you're certain no other person is watching. When no one is watching, you are driven by what you expect of yourself.”
“I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.”
“Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across the cornfields--there must be cornfields and they must wave in the breeze--and there I would immerse myself in the wisdom of the ages and in myself. Then I might perhaps find peace and clarity. But that would be no great feat. It is right here, in this very place, in the here and the now, that I must find them.”
“The song of the umrhubhe creates a world of dreams.”

Source : Zakes Mda (2007). “The Heart of Redness: A Novel”, p.154, Macmillan
“Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.”
“Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.”
“The First Crusade ... set off on its two-thousand-mile jaunt by massacring Jews, plundering and slaughtering all the way from the Rhine to the Jordan. "In the temple of Solomon," wrote the ecstatic cleric Raimundus de Agiles, "one rode in blood up to the knees and even to the horses" bridles, by the just and marvelous judgment of God.”
“Building relationships is the key for being happy as a coach. Players must want to play for you. If they are comfortable with you, they will work hard for you.”

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