"History ... with its long, leisurely, gentlemanly labors, the books arriving by post, the cards to be kept and filed, the sections to be copied, the documents to be checked, is the ideal pursuit for the New England mind."

-- Elizabeth Hardwick

#Book Quotes #Long Quotes #History Quotes

“The Book of Mormon was written for us today. God is the author of the book. It is a record of a fallen people, compiled by inspired men for our blessing today. Those people never had the book. It was meant for us.”
“The greater the crime perpetrated by the leadership, the less likely it is that the people will ever believe their leaders to be capable of perpetrating such an event.”
“And people are always saying he deceptively quick, deceptively athletic, and I don't know if that's just because I'm Asian or what it is, but obviously there's going to be stereotypes that you have to fight.”
“Iâ€™m not interested in changing either my suit or my car or whatever with every change in fashion. Thatâ€™s irrelevant. I donâ€™t judge myself or my friends by their fashions. Of course, I donâ€™t approve of people who are sloppy and unnecessarily shabby or dishevelledâ€¦ But Iâ€™m not impressed by a US$5,000 or US$10,000 Armani suit.”
“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal... To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.”

Source : Rebecca Solnit (2010). “Hope In The Dark”, p.29, Canongate Books
“In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.”
“Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape the system and build a better life.”
“A right heart leans on Christ, hangs on Christ, builds on Christ and cleaves to Christ.”

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