"What happened in World War II was what happened in war generally, and that was whatever the initiating cause, and however clear the moral reason is for the war in which one side looks better than the other, by the time the war ends both sides have been engaged in evil."

-- Howard Zinn

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“Only one life, a few brief years, Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears; Each with its clays I must fulfill. living for self or in His will; Only one life, 'twill soon be past, Only what s done for Christ will last.”
“Lots of people come up to me and call me Sir Bruce now. Interviewers call me Sir with every question, but I never make a point of making people call me Sir. It doesn't matter to me, though; it was a great honour to be knighted. I'm very proud of it.”
“Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.”
“The players who have reached out to me and told me about their sexual orientation, it just means a lot.”

Source : "Michael Sam: ‘I’m not the only gay person in the NFL’" by Charean Williams, www.star-telegram.com. March 26, 2015.
“This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.”
“Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.”

Source : Vince Lombardi (2001). “What It Takes To Be Number #1: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.21, McGraw Hill Professional
“Like everyone else, I like to be with a happy crowd.”

Source : Buster Keaton, Charles Samuels (2015). “My Wonderful World Of Slapstick”, p.369, Pickle Partners Publishing
“He brings to naught, destroys and rejects all that is not His own work; how He draws everything to Himself and absorbs it, that at last He may live and work in us and through us and reign alone as king. Happy the soul who refuses nothing to love, but places everything at His disposal, for only thus may all our works be done more and more in God.”

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