"Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment."

-- Wendell Willkie

#Military Quotes #War Quotes #America Quotes

“Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiselled on the human soul, and engraved on the human psyche.”
“You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.”
“Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.”
“Stories have tangents; they open up and become different things. You can still have a structure, but you should leave room to dream. If you stay true to your ideas, filmmaking becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process. And if it's an honest thing for you, there's a chance that people will feel that, even if it's abstract.”
“Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.”

Source : Stedman Graham (1998). “You Can Make It Happen: A Nine-Step Plan for Success”, p.66, Simon and Schuster
“Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.”
“Once I made up my mind that music was what I wanted to do, I never looked back.”
“By his own will Christ was dependent on Mary during Advent: he was absolutely helpless; he could go nowhere but where she chose to take him; he could not speak; her breathing was his breath; his heart beat in the beating of her heart.... In the seasons of our Advent - waking, working, eating, sleeping, being - each breath is a breathing of Christ into the world.”

Source : Caryll Houselander, Marie Anne Mayeski (1991). “A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader”, p.73, Rowman & Littlefield

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