"The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book."

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Edward Abbey

#Book Quotes #Graduates Quotes #Good Book Quotes

“Beneath the greatest love lies a hurricane of hate.”
“Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control.”
“You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you.”
“Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble actions and that we were capable of sacrificing honor to a sense of efficacy.”

Source : Linda Grant (1991). “Blind Trust”, Fawcett Books
“Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.”
“There was a band in San Diego, Bluegrass Etc, that played a weekly gig. My parents would take my brother and me every Saturday night for 7 or 8 years. Sean and I started taking lessons with them and they gave us a great foundation in bluegrass instrumentation. They were the lens through which I saw music for a very long time.”
“The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.”
“God designed that the living machinery should be in daily activity. For in this activity or motion is its preserving power.... The more we exercise, the better will be the circulation of the blood.”

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