"The best thing is not to be born. But who is as lucky as that? To whom does it happen? Not to one among millions and millions of people."

-- Brother Theodore

#People Quotes #Doe Quotes #Lucky Quotes

“Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.”
“I never have compared myself to Jessica Tandy in any way, and that's such a great role model for me to look at. I'm seriously going to put pictures of her in my dressing room and commune with her from now on, I think.”
“It is throwing your life away to think of the wrong things.”
“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist.”

Source : "Is There a Santa Claus" (editorial), Sun (N.Y.), 21 Sept. 1897
“Some wars are about bombing. For the people of the Baltics, this war was about believing. In 1991, after 50 years of brutal occupation, the three Baltic countries regained their independence, peacefully and with dignity. They chose hope over hate and showed the world that even through the darkest night, there is light. Please research it. Tell someone. These three tiny nations have taught us that love is the most powerful army. Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy - love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.”
“When America was first made known to Europe, the part assumed by France on the borders of that new world was peculiar, and is little recognized. While the Spaniard roamed sea and land, burning for achievement, red-hot with bigotry and avarice, and while England, with soberer steps and a less dazzling result, followed in the path of discovery and gold-hunting, it was from France that those barbarous shores first learned to serve the ends of peaceful commercial industry.”

Source : Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada”, p.145, Library of America
“You are now, and you do become, what you think about.”
“A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.”

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