"Heroes understand the vast moral gulf between those who target the innocent and those who target those who target the innocent."

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“Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.”

Source : Erin McCarthy (2005). “The Pregnancy Test”, p.195, Kensington Books
“The master says itâ€™s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says itâ€™s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if thereâ€™s anyone in the world who would like us to live.”
“If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.”
“Perhaps all women are part faerie, for what woman can deny her faerie blood when the portals to her own land are open; when the full moon sings its insistent song; when sorrow and passion and rage pulse through her body at moon times. This is why women are the chosen ones of Faerie, pat of the vibrant, fluid, emotional soul of the worldâ€¦”
“I can't play piano like I used to either. I used to have bass rolling like thunder. I can't do that no more. But I ask the Lord, please forgive me for the stuff I done trying to make a nickel.”
“Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsenseâ€”nonsense upon stilts.”

Source : Anarchical Fallacies art. 2 (1816)
“One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it is only a floating ash.”
“If you don't have dreams, you will end up working for people who do.”

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