"You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it...Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them?"

-- William Tecumseh Sherman

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“Dame Fortune is a fickle gipsy, And always blind, and often tipsy; Sometimes for years and years together, She 'll bless you with the sunniest weather, Bestowing honour, pudding, pence, You can't imagine why or whence; Then in a moment Presto, pass! Your joys are withered like the grass”

Source : Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1852). “Lillian: And Other Poems”, p.64
“God gives us hopes and dreams for certain things to happen in our lives, but He doesn't always allow us to see the exact timing of His plan.”
“Han?â€ â€œYeah, sweetie.â€ â€œHow do you teach a man not to be a noble, long-suffering, self-sacrificing idiot?â€ â€œI donâ€™t know, sweetie. Mostly I shoot them.â€ â€œIâ€™ll consider that.”
“Atheists say no one can prove the existence of God but I say no one can disprove that God exists I see God in everything I feel his presence everywhere to me I know that he exists.”
“I do not bring any professional knowledge of the issue to bear, but what I do bring to my consideration of immigration is a deepened and highly sensitized feeling with those persons who feel alien in our country. I can feel the strangeness they feel because it is something I have experienced in a different area.”
“Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.”
“Nobody wants to be associated with failing to qualify for the World Cup finals. I cannot imagine the shame of it.”
“Handicaps are really to be used another way to benefit yourself and others.”

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