"Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world ..."

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Source : Pearl S. Buck (2013). “A Bridge for Passing”, p.10, Open Road Media

Pearl S. Buck

#Safety Quotes #Peaceful Quotes #Unity Quotes

“I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.”
“The Cinderella of the church today is the prayer meeting.Â This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is not dripping with the pearls of intellectualism, nor glamorous with the silks of philosophy; neither is she enchanting with the tiara of psychology.Â She wears the homespuns of sincerity and humility and so is not afraid to kneel!”
“To practice Sincerity is to burden everyone else with believing you.”
“But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as a key cog in how American businesses conduct their affairs and how Americans all across this land communicate.”
“I beseech you, one and all, to add your prayers to mine to the end that war and bloodshed cease, and that love, friendship, peace and unity reign in the world.”
“I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.”
“On his face was an expression of absolute love. Melting, soul-touching, raw, unbridled love, the kind of person dies for, sacrifices and suffers for. It was the kind of love that a person would wait two hundred years to see fulfilled. It was True Love in its purest form.”

Source : Jude Deveraux (2013). “True Love”, p.354, Ballantine Books
“It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or if avoiding the separation creates a confusing ambiguity or patent artificiality, you are entitled to happily go ahead and split!”

Source : Richard Lederer (2012). “Lederer on Language: A Celebration of English, Good Grammar, and Wordplay”, p.58, Marion Street Press

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