"How rarely boyhood loves to paint in glowing tints his future bright, a picture where no line is faint--whose very clouds are touch'd with light. And girlhood hails a world unknown and reads it in her own glad dreams, as lilies see themselves alone reflected in their azure streams. But rosy clouds that morning brings, ere noon may deepen into thunder--and life's dark stream has sterner things than silver lilies growing under."

-- Cecil Frances Alexander

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“Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.”
“I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.”
“"Face Again" is actually the most George Saunders-y song. Basically the verses, I'm describing a world where love is being killed, and then in the first chorus, I'm sort of protesting it. It's like, "I don't think you know what's best for me." And then by the end, it's like I've given in, and it becomes very desperate.”
“It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. ...Â Some of the worst tyrannies of our day genuinely are "vowed" to the service of mankind, yet can function only by pitting neighbor against neighbor. The all-seeing eye of a totalitarian regime is usually the watchful eye of the next-door neighbor. In a Communist state love of neighbor may be classed as counter-revolutionary.”
“I tried to be strong in the face of obstacles.”
“I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.”

Source : Rick Bragg (2010). “All Over but the Shoutin'”, p.20, Vintage
“When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.”
“An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.”

Source : B. F. Skinner (2014). “Verbal Behavior”, p.145, B. F. Skinner Foundation

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