"I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done."

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Source : John Brown (1910). “The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas and Martyr of Virginia”

John Brown

#War Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Blood Quotes

“That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.”
“I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation,”

Source : "JEFF WEINER: LinkedIn Doesn't Leak Because We Treat Employees Like Adults" by Max Nisen, www.businessinsider.com. February 14, 2013.
“If you fall-and trust me, you will- make sure you fall on your back. Because if you fall on your back, you can see up. And if you can see up, you can get up. And you can keep going and going and going.”
“I should probably never describe myself as adorable.”

Source : "Interview: Lee Pace on the Whimsical World of Pushing Daisies". Popsugar interview, www.popsugar.com. October 8, 2008.
“If SANTA CLAUS came down the chimney in a f**king jogging suit, you wouldn't even know it was him.”
“I didn't come to New York to be a star. I brought my star with me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.”
“Oh, Gods." His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a common mistake.”

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