"This is a hard fight and we had better all die than lose it."

-- James Longstreet

#War Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Civil War Quotes

“Iâ€™ve been here before, dreaming myself backwards, among grappling hooks of light. True to the seasons, Iâ€™ve lived every word spoken. Did I walk into someoneâ€™s nightmare?”
“In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked.”
“I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.”
“I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.”
“The smell of factory farms . . . many notice these places only when the odours reach their homes, affecting their own quality of life. We create these animals for our profit and pleasure, playing with their genes, violating their dignity as living creatures, forcing them to lie and live in their own urine and excrement, turning pens into penitentiaries and frustrating their every desire except what is needed to keep them breathing and breeding. And then we complain about the smell.”
“Love the life you have while you create the life of your dreams. Don't think you have to wait for the latter to do the former.”
“This is the simple discovery which we must confront. We were given a place in the creation, with a beauty beyond telling, and we have failed to care for it. And as our collective contempt for the non-human world has intensified, so has our contempt for each other. We have failed to care for each other.”
“In my view, a huge portion of WikiLeaks's activities has nothing to do with legitimate newsgathering, informing the public, commenting on important public controversies, but is simply about releasing classified information to damage the United States of America.”

Source : "Read the full testimony of FBI Director James Comey in which he discusses Clinton email investigation". www.washingtonpost.com. May 3, 2017.

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