"The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future."

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Source : Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Jeremiah E. Goulka (2004). “The grand old man of Maine: selected letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914”, The University of North Carolina Press

Joshua Chamberlain

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“Talk is a pure art. Its only limits are the patience of listeners who, when they get tired, can always pay for their coffee or change it with a friendly waiter and walk out.”
“Here's the beauty of a camera: you don't have to come up with words for what you're looking at... Maybe another angle is needed sometimes. When we're burned out from writing, we can photograph or draw, look at the world in a different way, and photographers could try writing what they see.”
“Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.”
“I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.”

Source : FaceBook post by Barbara Taylor Bradford from Aug 17, 2014
“The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love - or any other experience - must take place in the present.”
“I like really sparse electronics, lush arrangements, and interesting chord structures.”
“Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.”

Source : "George Best dies, aged 59" by Mark Oliver, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2005.
“Even if you're the best singer in the world, there's a good chance no one will ever hear you.”

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