"The future will be different if we make the present different."

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Source : Peter Maurin (2010). “Easy Essays”, p.61, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Peter Maurin

#Different Quotes

“Mencheres slid through the water toward her, drawn by the same inexorable compulsion that led moths to dance with flames. He'd had several lifetimes' worth of reason, cold machinations, and, ultimately, emptiness. Perhaps the moths knew what he didn't, that the joy of the flame was worth the price of destruction.”
“Successful adult relationships, whether between lovers or friends, require a significant degree of vulnerability, trust, and openness-”
“It was an odd relationship, but then she was an extraordinary woman: a prioress who doubted much of what the church taught; an acclaimed healer who rejected medicine as practised by physicians; and a nun who made enthusiastic love to her man whenever she could get away with it. If I wanted a normal relationship, Merthin told himself, I should have picked a normal girl.”
“Beauty is a possession not our own.”
“You look different now. Like a proper little girl," said Gendry. "I look like an oak tree, with all these stupid acorns," said Arya. "Nice, though. A nice oak tree. You even smell nice for a change.”
“It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.”
“I think I did everything possible known to any mayor in the country as it relates to saving lives.”

Source : Interview with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. September 11, 2005.
“Steel itself oft lures a man to fight.”

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