"This is not going away. At this point of unimaginable threats on the horizon, this is what hope looks like. In these times of a morally bankrupt government that has sold out its principles, this is what patriotism looks like. With countless lives on the line, this is what love looks like, and it will only grow."

-- Tim DeChristopher

#Government Quotes #Going Away Quotes #Horizon Quotes

“Knitting is a boon for those of us who are easily bored. I take my knitting everywhere to take the edge off of moments that would otherwise drive me stark raving mad.”
“I bought an electric-powered chain saw with a plug-in cord so if I run away fast enough, you can only chase me so far.”
“But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born.”
“He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity.”
“I call on God Almighty to have mercy on the German people. More than two million German soldiers went to their death for the fatherland before me. I follow now my sons - all for Germany.”

Source : Last words, quoted in "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II" by Jon E. Lewis, 2002.
“If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...”

Source : Marcus Manilius, A. E. Housman (2011). “Astronomicon”, p.19, Cambridge University Press
“Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.”
“My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.”

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