"Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine."

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Source : "Religion: Go Ye and Relax?". content.time.com. April 20, 1953.

Adam Schiff

#War Quotes #Blessed Quotes #Compassion Quotes

“You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.”
“I believe that being on that show [the Voice] and getting the exposure opened the door for me to get my name and music outside of Texas and the markets I was used to playing in. One of the bigger things that came about from being on the show was that I got on with Paradigm Booking Agency; one of my earlier problems was how hard it is to get booked if you don't have a good booking agency.”
“Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just the time when there is no time to think about such things, because the body is so greedy for attention.”

Source : Ferdinand Mount (1991). “Of love and asthma”, Vintage
“Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.”
“In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.”

Source : "Myths, Dreams and Mysteries". Book by Mircea Eliade translated by Philip Mairet (p. 23), 1967.
“And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.”
“Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.”
“I try to keep things as varied as possible in my career, and after playing something as fun and over the top as Maryann on 'True Blood,' I wanted to find something antithetical to that.”

Source : "Q&A – Michelle Forbes (Mitch Larsen)". AMC interview, www.amc.com.

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