"If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it."

-- James Forrestal

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“Put no obstacle in her path and this will surely die a natural death; obstruct her, and it will give the situation an importance to worth fighting for.”
“By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.”

Source : "Become Who You Are: The World’s First Legally Recognized Cyborg May Be Onto Something" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2015.
“It’s about reaching that moment of pure ecstasy when a drawing just happens. Where every move you make with your hand and every thought you have in your head grows in front of you without any mistakes; no rubbing out, starting again and getting frustrated. It’s like being in a trance - it’s a fluid - and you almost don’t remember doing the picture. Drawing is an escape from all the unnecessary things in life that get in the way of being free.”
“Yes, I'm a Judeo-Christian. Jesus and Moses are in my heart, and... both of them were independents, by the way.”
“One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.”

Source : C. S. Lewis (2010). “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, p.21, HarperCollins UK
“The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.”
“Every selfish, sinful, or indulgent choice I make today is sowing a seed that will reap a multiplied harvest. And every act of obedience is a seed that will produce a multiplied harvest of blessing in my life and in the lives of those I love.”

Source : Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2007). “Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free”, p.260, Moody Publishers
“There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration.”

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