"I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity."

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Source : Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.325, BIG BYTE BOOKS

Robert E. Lee

#Thinking Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Conscience Quotes

“It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot...or cosmic rays or a power ring...Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair.”
“We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business.”
“People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.”
“The world moves for love; it kneels before it in awe.”
“You have to give credit where credit is due.”
“When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book touched me by its feeling of freedom and open spaces, the way the poet spoke of the ocean by describing a drop of water in his hand. Walt Whitman was offering the world an open hand (now we call it democracy) and my 'Monument for Walt Whitman' became this open hand with mirrors, so you can see inside yourself.”

Source : "Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Book edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, Edition Lafayette, New York, p. 93, 'Quotes', 1990.
“I love when I teach my son a good lesson. But I love it even more when he teaches me.”
“We're used to comeback stories in the world of sports, but the Gail Devers story is remarkable. This is a comeback from an illness which almost killed her.”

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