"We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy."

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Alexander Herzen

#Believe Quotes #Soul Quotes #Trials Quotes

“I can understand why people would want to stay on the road because you create your own bubble. You almost don't live in the real world. Just to have the things that are with you is fine.”
“[Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience . He was killed for it.”
“I believe in the soul ... the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.”
“I think if you're gonna run your mouth at somebody and they call you out on it - that's it!”
“Poets are always taking the weather so personally.”
“If I train the hardest, run the longest, go beyond what anyone else has the mental determination to do, I will be the winner.”
“Black power got to moving so fast that we miscalculated the fallout. I certainly have to take some of the responsibility of that; but there was no way we anticipated the response.”
“It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.”

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