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“O beautiful human life! Tears come to my eyes as I think of it. So beautiful, so inexpressibly beautiful! The song should never be silent, the dance never still, the laugh should sound like water which runs forever.”
Source : Richard Jefferies (1883). “The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography”
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“There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.”
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“First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I'm living in an H.G. Wells novel.”
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“When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior's way.”
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“Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention; they are in fact inextricably linked.”
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“My object when writing prose is to write as clearly as possible. I think I know what I'm saying in prose, and I want others to understand it and to be able to restate it.”
Source : "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009. 
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“Intolerance is evidence of fear, and fear is the consequence of feeling powerless.”
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“I don't really drink, and I've never been to a rave. I used to cut school to read Shakespeare, not to make out in the park.”
