"There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself."

-- John F. Kerry

#War Quotes #Issues Quotes #Life And Death Quotes

“It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural.”
“The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle produces an effect no less powerful than the finger of God touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo.”
“My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me.”
“If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.”

Source : Saikaku Ihara (1959). “The Japanese Family Storehouse: Or, The Millionaire's Gospel Modernised. Nippon Eitai-gura, Or Daifuku Shin Chōja Kyō (1688)”, Cambridge University Press
“Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.”
“But above all preserve peace of heart. This is more valuable than any treasure.”
“The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recall.”

Source : Louise Beebe Wilder (1990). “The fragrant path”, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
“We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.”

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