"Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of our times with materials of more fatal explosion, and the butchers of mankind no longer travel to another world for instruments of cruelty and destruction."

-- John Quincy Adams

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“that's what everybody wants, just a little more money, even the people who have it.”

Source : Nella Larsen (2012). “Passing”, p.19, Courier Corporation
“See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.”
“I haven't had a drink in twelve days and I've gotta say, I'm pretty shocked at how boring people are.”

Source : FaceBook post by Christian Finnegan from Aug 11, 2013
“Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try.”
“This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.”
“Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: blossoms in white and palest pink, ponderous with decreptitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred by the paddling of ducks.”

Source : John Burnham Schwartz (2009). “The Commoner”, p.148, Vintage
“The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.”
“Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.”

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