"America you are beautiful . . . and blessed . . . . The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being, but especially the weakest and most defenseless. If you want equal justice for all and true freedom and lasting peace, then America, defend life."

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Source : Pope John Paul II (2012). “A Pilgrim Pope: Messages for the World”, p.242, Andrews McMeel Publishing

Pope John Paul II

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“After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.”
“I don't know what an audience wants to see but I know what I like to see.”
“Any genuine work of art generates new work.”
“Becoming world champion is something I have worked at for my entire career. It doesn't matter to me that my first title shot is at a different weight. The opportunity is at super-middleweight and I am going to take it. But that doesn't mean I am forever going to be restricted to the super-middleweight division. I've still got a lot of work to do, a lot of unfinished business at middleweight.”

Source : Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk
“You are allowed to lie a little, but you must never mislead.”
“If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as it were not there.”

Source : Said to General Eisenhower in 1945. "Russia: The People and the Power". Book by Robert G. Kaiser, p. 207, 1976.
“You can't feel happy unless you feel free.”
“People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the more alive you are. This capacity for caring can illuminate any relationship: marriage, family, friendships-even the ties of affection that often join humans and animals. Each of us is born with some of it, but whether we let it expand or diminish is largely up to us. To care, you have to surrender the armor of indifference. You have to be willing to act, to make the first move.”

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