"Americans want to defeat terrorism and they want the basic character of this country to survive and prosper. They want both security and liberty, and unless we give them both â€” and we can if we try â€” we have failed."

-- Russ Feingold

#Country Quotes #Character Quotes #Giving Quotes

“None of the people are what you think when you first meet them, who you think they are, and they turn out to be maybe something a little different.”
“My biggest achievement is my children.”
“No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed.”

Source : Lyman Abbott (2009). “The Theology of an Evolutionist”, p.118, Cambridge University Press
“I've approached music with the understanding that knowledge is available regarding tones and their effect upon the body. I think the father of that knowledge was the mathematician Pythagoras who lived several thousand years ago. Pythagoras was also a fine musician and he knew specifically what tones would affect which parts of the body.”
“War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not--I am not dreaming--it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through.”
“I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.”
“It is to our lack of proper content ("notre manque de contenu propre:;Â», Fr.), of our inner emptiness that we need occupations and distractions, otherwise ("faute de quoi", Fr.) we experience boredom, which is nothing elses than the feeling of unease that take hold of us when our spirit is not absorbed by the mirages of life.”
“The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !”

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