"We [Americans] choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own."

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Source : Ralph Peters (2001). “Fighting for the Future: Will America Triumph?”, p.51, Stackpole Books

Ralph Peters

#World Quotes #Term Quotes

“The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life”

Source : Gabrielle Zevin (2014). “The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel”, p.41, Algonquin Books
“Every philharmonic orchestra merely interprets the composer. My goal was to create new music by that composer. In doing so, I wanted to find the painter's creative center and become familiar with it, so that I could see through his eyes how his paintings came about and, of course, see the new picture I was painting through his eyes - before I even painted it.”
“The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted here to enjoy. Voluptuous raptures, could we prolong these at pleasure, would dissipate and dissolve us. A sip is the most that mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.”
“We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.”

Source : "The Living Torch, A.E". Book by Monk Gibbon, 1937.
“Scripture tells us to run with endurance the race that is set before us. As we do, may God hold close those who have been taken from us too soon.”
“People can think whatever they want to think because I'm steadily taking my checks to the bank, steadily putting food in my babies' bellies and raising them the best that I can. I'm really getting to the point where I honestly don't care what people think because they probably wish they were in my shoes.”
“I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.”
“But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?”

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