"Real love, no matter how unworthy the object, is a glorious adventure. It bursts the shackles of selfishness. One's world is bigger, broader; one's sympathies are amazingly more tender. No matter what the result, if you haven't really loved, you haven't really lived."

-- Emilie Loring

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“What fun it is to generalize in the privacy of a note book. It is as I imagine waltzing on ice might be. A great delicious sweep in one direction, taking you your full strength, and then with no trouble at all, an equally delicious sweep in the opposite direction. My note book does not help me think, but it eases my crabbed heart.”
“I used to live on the other side of Canberra so it'd take me about 20-25-minutes to come into training. I was so thankful to have a car. Mum was also happy because she had all this extra time instead of driving me to training, waiting around, and then taking me home.”
“As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law.”

Source : The Queen v. Bishop of London, L. R. 23 Q. B. 452, 1889.
“National Guard soldiers, as you know, give up their jobs, their time with their family, make sacrifices to make sure this country is safe.”
“Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.”
“In so-called communist Romania, chess was held in high esteem, even if our champions were weaker than the Soviets. This game, this "sport of the mind," was at the time a better way to establish your reputation than literature.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.”
“I'll picture Rat Kiley face, his grief, and I'll think, You dumb cooze. Because she wasn't listening. It wasn't a war story. It was a love story.”

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