"See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed upon life's sacred fire, see the soldier with his gun who must be dead to be admired."

-- Gordon Lightfoot

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“I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.”
“These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge, and steadfast belief that we will pull through. There will be challenges and setbacks, as there have already been, but we will continue, and we the citizens of New Orleans will prevail in bringing our city back.”

Source : "Remembering Hurricane Katrina" by Cedric L. Richmond, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2011.
“Irony is the hygiene of the mind.”

Source : Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”
“No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time.”
“No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our own way of institutionalizing them.”

Source : Jessie Bernard (1975). “The future of motherhood”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“Failing is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.”
“But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: â€œThis is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.”
“The prospective colonization of space responds, not to the particular problems of the American nation, or of any other nation, but to those of mankind as a whole... In an ideal view, such an undertaking by mankind as a whole would tend to divert it from its present preoccupation with international conflict, would tend to channel its energies into the pursuit of a great common purpose.”

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