"Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you will have to incorporate their people too."

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Source : Carl Schurz (1969). “December 13, 1870-February 27, 1874”

Carl Schurz

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“I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me.”
“Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.”

Source : Ellen Goodman (2010). “Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times”, p.334, Simon and Schuster
“The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.”
“We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.”

Source : Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.180, North Atlantic Books
“I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.”
“We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.”
“You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.”
“I force myself to care about the music end by wrestling with it for years.”

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