"The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes."

-- Horace Greeley

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“Colors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration.”
“In these long-standing conflicts, I find that most cases it gets resolved in about twenty minutes after each side can tell me the needs of the other.”
“There is a blessing in losing the one we love. It's the blessing of self-transformation. You don't have to who you were anymore. You've struggled. And now you can change. It doesn't mean that bits of that person won't cling to you, they will throughout your life, but they are now subsumed into something greater. That person has given you, in fact, the most important blessing, which is they gave you the blessing of transforming your soul into something better, something more beautiful.”
“I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. LIke genius she is ignorant of what she does.”
“Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.”
“Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated,.”

Source : "Amiable Democratic debate may signal endgame of Gore-Bradley contest" by Mike Ferullo, www.cnn.com. March 2, 2000.
“If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.”
“America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves.”

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