"Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next."

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Source : Machado de Assis (1963). “The Psychiatrist, and Other Stories”, p.113, Univ of California Press

Machado de Assis

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“War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.”

Source : William McKinley (2012). “A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents”, p.20, tredition
“A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a God to raise him to the dignity of a God.”

Source : John Taylor (2018). “An Examination into and an Elucidation of the Great Principle of the Mediation and Atonement of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ”, p.130, BoD – Books on Demand
“Ironically, I think action can be the dullest part of movies nowadays - and I love action movies!”
“The old people, they struggled, they fought the elements, they fought everything was against them here. The river, the summers and the heat. So finally when they settled Hurricane there and got the water on that bench, most of them left.”
“But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.”
“All life includes loss. It's taken me many, many years to learn to deal with that, and I don't expect I'll ever be fully resigned to it. But that doesn't mean we have to turn away from the world, or stop striving for the best that we can do and be. We owe that much to ourselves, at least, and we deserve whatever measure of good may come of it.”
“The words I overuse are all adverbs.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2014.
“I have kleptomania. But when it gets bad, I take something for it.”

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