"The war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence,and that, or extermination, we WILL have."

-- Jefferson Davis

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“All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress”
“People are smarter than you think. Give them a chance to prove themselves.”
“You choose happiness. You don't wait for it to choose you.”
“Maybe love isn't just a bouquet of roses once in a while. Maybe it's just sticking it out, when it's hard, when you're mad, when you're tired.”

Source : Kristan Higgins (2013). “The Best Man”, p.279, HQN Books
“If there's someone that I just wan to work with in the future, I set a general meeting and I say, "I'm a really big fan. I want to meet you. I'd love to collaborate with you someday and hopefully you'll remember that for the next time you have something that I could be right for."”
“Women are so strangely constructed that they have in them darkness as well as light, though it be but a little curtain hung across the sun. And love is the hand that takes the curtain down, a stronger hand than fear, which hung it up. For all the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.”

Source : Eleanor Farjeon (2013). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”, p.181, Random House
“What I am interested in is the present time”
“We can't always make life work. But we can always draw near to God. There is a different way to approach our problems. There is a NEW WAY to live.”

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