"We were alive. I remember it that way. We were still alive, and we couldn't see how close we were to the end."

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Source : Nova Ren Suma (2015). “The Walls Around Us”, p.11, Algonquin Books

Nova Ren Suma

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“I am confident, however old-fashioned this may sound, that funds left in the hands of the public will come into the Exchequer with interest at the time in the future when we need them.”

Source : "Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council", (p. 51), February 28, 1962.
“Once I returned to the Church and began to see the universe as a place that really did incorporate redemption and really tried to understand the implications of there being a God, my identification with the vampires as outcasts, as outsiders and lost souls began to totally wane. It no longer worked for me. I had done it. It had led me to this point.”
“When we live the love of the Gospel out loud, a revolution will occur,”
“I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results.”
“It is a great art to succeed in having your soul sanctified. A person can become a saint anywhere. He can become a saint in Omonia Square, if he wants. At your work, whatever it may be, you can become a saint through meekness, patience, and love. Make a new start every day, with new resolution, with enthusiasm and love, prayer and silence - not with anxiety so that you get a pain in the chest.”
“I find it so unattractive when women wear sneakers with their business suits. I wear a nice pair of loafers or low-heeled pumps, and that's that.”
“Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.”

Source : "The Art of Scientific Investigation". Book by William Ian Beardmore Beveridge, p. 65, 1950.
“my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.”

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