"Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war."

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Source : John Bright, H. J. Leech (1885). “The Public Letters of John Bright”, London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington

John Bright

#War Quotes #Loss Quotes #Years Quotes

“Earth's immune system - its rapid response team of self-protection - becomes invigorated at times of peril. And one sees it at play now in the upwelling of grassroots work aimed at finding a sustainable future.”

Source : Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.
“If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.”
“It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.”
“I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Some things you do-or you're about to do-you can just be like, 'Hey, don't do that because it means trouble.' So I've got to back off.”
“But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.”
“Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.”

Source : Robert E. Howard (2006). “Kull: Exile of Atlantis”, p.128, Del Rey
“It is a bit more challenging for the simple fact that now the stories I am writing are relying more on my imagination than on facts, more on research than on memory; so it is basically a slower writing process, more reading, more exploring. On the other hand, this approach is a little bit relieving too, since many times while writing [How the Soldieer Repairs the Gramophone] I felt too close and equal to my character.”

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