"Old and young, we are all on our last cruise."

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

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“The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith â€” and faith will triumph.”

Source : Speech at the unveiling of a statue of Lafayette in Brooklyn (1917), as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, 1922.
“I'm from another time period. E-mailing sometimes, for me, is difficult.”
“They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.”
“Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass”
“The turning point is that moment of naked acceptance of the truth.”
“the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and hard-won victories that the feminist movement did manage to win for women. This counterassault is largely insidious: in a kind of pop-culture version of the Big Lie, it stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's position have actually led to their downfall.”

Source : Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”
“I have been affected by gossip and I know people who have been, too. I've seen marriages destroyed by gossip. It is cruel. At the end of the day, all that matters is: Do you love what you see when you look in the mirror? That is it, baby.”

Source : "Jada Pinkett Smith On Tabloid Rumors: ‘I’ve Seen Marriages Destroyed By Gossip’" by Erin Clements, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2013.
“You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”

Source : Abraham Lincoln, Jack Stevenson (2017). “Abraham Lincoln: 100 Influential Quotes of My Life”, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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