"Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln for in him I saw the destroyer."

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Source : Belle Boyd (1998). “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison”, p.265, LSU Press

Belle Boyd

“To me dogs are not the students, not the ones that need training. To me a dog is a teacher of life, who teaches us the principles of the most important moral values; honesty, integrity, loyalty, trust, respect and love.”

Source : FaceBook post by Cesar Millan from Nov 14, 2013
“I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.”
“In our childhoods we either get all the social and emotional and ethical skills we need to be well adjusted adults, or we don't. Some of us don't know how to tell someone we like them. A lot of us get depressed and get wasted. Why don't we do something that makes us feel better? Because we don't know any other way. When I didn't have enough skills I compensated with drugs and alcohol. It's like there was a hole in the wall and I put a poster over it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go â€˜Uh, Iâ€™m kind of an asshole.â€™”
“Sometimes I would get invited to a party or to go out to dinner by one of them and I would decline. Part of me wanted to go, but those kind of outings always made me feel even more alienated than usual. Hearing them talk made me feel lonely and hateful at the same time. Lonely because I didn't fit in, never did. When I was reminded, it hurt. And hateful because it reaffirmed what I already knew, that I was alone and on the outside.”
“Ye who amid this feverish world would wear A body free of pain, of cares a mind, Fly the rank city, shun its turbid air; Breathe not the chaos of eternal smoke And volatile corruption, from the dead, The dying, sickening, and the living world Exhal'd, to sully heaven's transparent dome With dim mortality.”
“Catherine the Great, like others of her kind, did not succeed in imparting greatness to her descendants.”

Source : Katharine Susan Anthony (1925). “Catherine the Great”
“I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.”

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