"Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going to go on growing-in size, in power, in everything a man could think of-and in that belief there was a might and a fury that would take form instantly at the moment of shock."

-- Bruce Catton

#Destiny Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as possible. A faddist will generally ask for a definition of faddism, and one who is not a faddist will be impatient of being asked to give one.”
“Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.”
“If I feel any sort of emotional upheaval, I go for a jog and I feel better.”
“My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much.”
“This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis, by postulating the operation of no unknown or uncertain cause, but only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.”

Source : William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.404, Transaction Publishers
“Upon death the believer goes immediately into the presence of Christ in heaven, a realm far better than this earth. Heaven is our true home.”
“A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.”
“I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.”

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