"I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me."

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Source : Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.221, Ballantine Books

Elizabeth Moon

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“Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations.”
“He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.”

Source : Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc
“I can't think of anything worse after a night of drinking than waking up next to someone and not being able to remember their name, or how you met, or why they're dead.”
“Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.”

Source : Stendhal's journal entry, December 10, 1801.
“. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.”
“I don’t read Scripture and cling to no life precepts, except perhaps to Walter Cronkite’s rules for old men, which he did not deliver over the air: Never trust a fart. Never pass up a drink. Never ignore an erection.”

Source : "This Old Man" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. February 17, 2014.
“Good ideas, as we have seen, are not always well received, especially if there are too many of them.”

Source : R Meredith Belbin (2012). “Management Teams”, p.34, Routledge
“There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands, and what man has made, man can destroy!”

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