"I think.' she said, 'that sometimes we don't feel the things that we are. But others can feel them."

-- Kristin Cashore

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“The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences).”
“You fight dandelions all weekend, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity.”
“The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.”
“We French-Canadians belong to one country, Canada: Canada is for us the whole world: but the English-Canadians have two countries, one here and one across the sea.”
“Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.”
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”

Source : Speech in Washington, 16 Apr. 1953, in Public Papers of Presidents 1953 (1960) p. 182
“The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.”
“A wrongdoing doesn't give us the right to do wrong.”

Source : Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.196, Penguin

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