"War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state."

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Source : "The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade". Book by George Meade, 1913.

George Meade

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“Tune into the presence of miracles, and in an instant, life can be transformed into a dazzling experience, more wondrous and exciting than we could even imagine.”
“As academics we have pretty good judgment about the quality of institutions that cannot simply be measured by counting the number of papers published or patents received. Outsiders who swoop in to count beans and make up lists based on statistics have little sense of what excellence is.”

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“What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life!”
“The invisible government tends to be concentrated in the hands of the few because of the expense of manipulating the social machinery which controls the opinions and habits of the masses. To advertise on a scale which will reach fifty million persons is expensive. To reach and persuade the group leaders who dictate the public's thoughts and actions is likewise expensive.”
“Public property has the same standing with me as that of an orphan; if it is much, it must be conserved, and if it is little, it must be used with care.”
“We do not have to wait for the hereafter - it is now that we are one with Christ.”

Source : "Love One Another". Book by Catherine Doherty, 2002.
“All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.”
“If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.”

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