"The worst effect of tutelage is that it negates self-discipline, and therefore people suddenly released from it are almost bound to make fools of themselves."

-- Suzanne La Follette

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“â€Ž"Does all the beauty of the world stop when you die?" "No," said the Old Oak; "it will last much longer - longer than I can even think of." "Well, then," said the little May-fly, "we have the same time to live; only we reckon differently.”
“What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without them, of course, dealing with the hours and days that now accrue so quickly, and, unless they divined this somehow in advance, they don't know that we don't want this inexorable onslaught of breakfasts and phone calls and going to the bank, all this stepping along, because we don't want anything extraneous to get in the way of what we feel about them or the ways we want to hold them in mind.”

Source : "Over the Wall" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. November 19, 2012.
“Gospel artists have to do something that secular artists don't always have to do and that's kind of abide by and reflect a certain set of values and morals. So everything that we do, every decision that we make, every picture that we take has a different weight on it. It's always interesting in balancing being an artist but being a minister as well.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.”
“Negotiations with Iran, especially, will not be easy under any circumstances, but I suspect that they might be somewhat less difficult if the nuclear-weapon states could show that their requests are part of a broader effort to lead the world, including themselves, toward nuclear disarmament. Preventing further proliferation is essential, but it is not a recipe for success to preach to the rest of the world to stay away from the very weapons that nuclear states claim are indispensable to their own security.”
“We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.”
“The hill pines were sighing, O'ercast and chill was the day; A mist in the valley lying Blotted the pleasant May.”
“If I tell a hotel I'm a travel writer, I can't get out of there without spending a few hours looking at every single room!”

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