"Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others."

-- Alexander Hamilton

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“What coward would not fight when he is sure of victory?”
“I have a huge heart for Haiti and will tell the world how we can help!”
“Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.”
“I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. Itâ€™s actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our world, girls climb very well until they hit puberty-sexual maturity-and then they begin to fall out of the tree. They start role-playing instead of thinking, flirting instead of learning. They start admiring how smart the boys are-or how athletic or how handsome-instead of concentrating on their own intelligence.”

Source : Sheri S. Tepper (1997). “The family tree”, HarperCollins
“I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it.”

Source : Lady Gregory (1970). “The Collected Plays: Wonder and the supernatural”
“We Christians are secure, realizing that even our failures and our sins are under His control.”
“Our past cannot be changed, and to be preoccupied with it is inefficient in time and effort. Likewise, by fretting over the future, we only exhaust ourselves, making us less able to effectively respond when the future is actually upon us. By worrying about a mishap that may or may not take place, we're forced to undergo the event twice-once when imagining it and once again if and when we actually experience it.”
“I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family.”

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