"It wasn't fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn't delivered like the mail."

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Source : "Last Call". Book by Tim Powers, April 1992.

Tim Powers

#Mail Quotes #Fairness Quotes

“We need now to build a culture of geniune nonviolence and real democracy.”

Source : "The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland".
“German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts "beauty." It tries to be truthful.”

Source : Paul Celan, Rosemarie Waldrop (2003). “Collected Prose”, p.15, Psychology Press
“I decided to work on hand animate because the animators work as authors in every little scene and it brings real soul for characters.”
“A spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above the constraints of the earth. The spacecraft carries our secret hope that there is something better out there-a world where we may someday go and leave the sorrows of the past behind. The spacecraft rises toward the heavens exactly as, in our finest moments as a nation, our hearts have risen toward justice and principle.”
“Life is good - we forget that.”
“My will shall be done regardless of the flaws in thy life, if ye count upon the power of My righteousness. I do not work only in cases where there are no obstacles; but I glory in over-ruling the prevailing circumstances, and I take pleasure in bringing victories in those places where no victory is anywhere in sight.”

Source : Frances J. Roberts (1973). “Come Away My Beloved”
“For Westlife, the music will never stop as long as our fans are around inspiring us to keep on making beautiful music together.”
“In order to reclaim the joy and passion of leadership, we must walk the valley of the shadow of death and name the cost of leadership.”

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