"Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.”
“It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee . Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me.”
“Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.”

Source : Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.38
“Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere.”

Source : Scott Russell Sanders (1997). “Writing from the Center”, p.19, Indiana University Press
“It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.”
“We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience. If we knew why the Lord sent us this or that trial, it would thereby cease to be a trial either of faith or of patience.”
“So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, from Fort Reno to Fort Apache, from Sheridan to Stark. They were all the same. Men in dirty-shirt blue and only a cold page in the history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode and whatever they fought for, that place became the United States.”

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