"While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight While there is a drunkard left, While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight-I'll fight to the very end!"

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Source : "Booth the Beloved". Book by J. Evan Smith (pp. 122-124), 1949.

William Booth

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“I still believe that, in the long run, the aggregate of the decisions of individual businessmen, exercising individual judgment in a free economy, even if often mistaken, is likely to do less harm than the centralized decisions of a Government; and certainly the harm is likely to be counteracted faster. As I said earlier in this debate, our economic medicine may be painful but it is fast and powerful because it can act freely.”

Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 216), March 24, 1966.
“Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men command What trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend? What sweeter solace shall befall than one to find Upon whose breast thou may'st repose the secrets of thy mind”
“I'm Joe Canada, who never went to high school. I've never even been to a football game.”
“There was a positive side to not trying at something: you could always pretend that your life would have been different if you had.”
“Christmas has a way of bringing out the best in everyone”
“All I know from my own experience is that the more loss we feel the more grateful we should be for whatever it was we had to lose. It means that we had something worth grieving for. The ones I'm sorry for are the ones that go through life not knowing what grief is.”

Source : Frank O'Connor (1969). “A Set of Variations: Twenty-seven Stories”
“I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“But in my head I can hear Haymitch's smug, if slightly exasperated, words: "Yes, that's what I'm looking for, sweetheart.”

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