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“Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.”
Source : 1686 The Lucky Chance, act 4.
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“I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.”
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“For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.”
Source : Robert Capa (2015). “Slightly Out Of Focus”, p.142, Pickle Partners Publishing
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“The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.”
Source : Anita Shreve (1998). “The Pilot's Wife”, Little, Brown
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“Before saying 'I disagree' be sure you can say 'I understand.'”
Source : Roger E. Olson (2011). “Against Calvinism: Rescuing God's Reputation from Radical Reformed Theology”, p.8, Harper Collins
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“This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are.”
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“When the money is not spent on cars and refrigerators and is instead dropped into a slot machine, it leaves the economy”
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“Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.”
