"Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail."

-- James Russell Lowell

#Strong Quotes #Blue Quotes #Sky Quotes

“Capital' is not what capital is called, it is what its name is called.”
“Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.”
“Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.”
“Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far as is known, not merely by inanimate things, but also by living organisms, in their minutest parts, as single individuals, and also as whole communities. It results from this that, however complicated a series of phenomena may be and however many other sciences may enter into its complete presentation, the purely physical aspect, or the application of the known laws of matter and energy, can always be legitimately separated from the other aspects.”
“A strange, glazed expression came into his eyes and he staggered around the cabin looking for all the world like a zombie unwilling to take part in an experiment in advanced necromancy.”

Source : John E. Muller, Lionel Fanthorpe, Patricia Fanthorpe (2014). “Dark Continuum”, p.9, Hachette UK
“When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.”

Source : J.D. Greear (2011). “Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary”, p.27, B&H Publishing Group
“Can we rename [Taylor Swift] Pinocchio Swift?”
“I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.”

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