"You don't even realize you're living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after."

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Source : Robin Wasserman (2012). “The Book of Blood and Shadow”, p.96, Knopf Books for Young Readers

Robin Wasserman

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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”

Source : Speech in Washington, 16 Apr. 1953, in Public Papers of Presidents 1953 (1960) p. 182
“That very aggressive, unapologetic leadership style is needed in Washington, D.C., and I'm not afraid to tackle big issues.”
“The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.”
“I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.”
“My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.”
“I mean all this focus on how we look on the outside. It's just all wrong”

Source : Melody Carlson (2014). “Faded Denim: Color Me Trapped”, p.52, Tyndale House
“Every time I go out there I expect to win.”
“Afraid is a country with no exit visas ...”

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