"We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies."

-- William Gilmore Simms

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“In volunteer politics, a builder can build faster than a destroyer can destroy.”

Source : "The Law of Politics". Book by Graeme Orr, 2010.
“Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word.”
“With all the hatred in this world, in this good world, let us be kind to one another,”
“Whether youre president or speaker, if youre wrong, we need to stand up and point it out. Thats what Martin Luther King had talked about: being judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin. So some of us pounded away on some of the ridiculous policies of Pelosi - and lo and behold, over time, the public began to see.”
“Procrastinatio n is still the thief of time.”
“With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find that this exodus from the land makes me unspeakably sad. I think of the children who will never know, intuitively, that a flower is a plant's way of making love, or what silence sounds like, or that trees breathe out what we breathe in.”

Source : Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.48, Faber & Faber
“I don't consider myself much of an actor. I have a face and a voice that allows me to do certain things, but there are people who are way better at it than I am.”
“Evolutionary learning calls upon our creative potentials as it empowers us to envision images of the future and bring those images to life by design.”

Source : Bela H. Banathy (2013). “Guided Evolution of Society: A Systems View”, p.255, Springer Science & Business Media

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