"Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces."

-- Henry David Thoreau

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“Art is life, life is life, but to lead life artistically is the art of life.”
“There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have seen the Taj Mahal and love it and those who have not seen the Taj and love it.”
“Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery.”
“The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.”

Source : Attributed to Stonewall Jackson in "Stonewall Jackson: An Address" by Hunter McGuire (p. 16), 1897.
“And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.”
“Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider themselves superior define and treat the rest as subhuman, denies the humanity even of those who elevate themselves to the status of gods.”
“For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.”
“Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?'”

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