"... for no change comes calmly over the world..."

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Source : "A Canticle for Leibowitz". Book by Walter M. Miller, Jr., 1960.

Walter M. Miller, Jr.

“It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward, thereby resulting in small yet volatile eddies churning at everybody's surface. (In the more dangerous cases, it created a lasting whirlpool in which the strongest swimmers could drown.)”

Source : Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.192, Penguin
“The police had a practice of entrapping people. This was done all over the country, but we had a particularly vicious group here in Southern California because of the Hollywood situation. They knew they could get a lot of them. They were shaking down people for thousands in blackmail.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org
“Skating can make you feel athletic, graceful, beautiful.”

Source : "Olympic skater Gracie Gold's secret to a tight, toned core". www.foxnews.com. February 14, 2014.
“A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.”
“The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.”
“The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.”
“Just like Sept. 11, only with nuclear weapons this time, that's the threat. I think that is the threat. I think it's just facing reality. It's not a happy reality, but it's reality and if you don't deal with it, it will become even more unpleasant.”
“I'll show up at every classroom open house and teacher conference,' she said, now in a voice that was almost frightening in its intensity. 'I'll bake brownies. My child will have new clothes. Her shoes will fit. She'll get her shots, and she'll get her braces. We'll start a college fund next week. I'll tell her I love her every damn day.' If that wasn't a great plan for being a good mother, I couldn't imagine what a better one could be”

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