"The post-war loss of Churchill may have damaged the Western world with the same impact as the post-civil war world was damaged by the loss of Lincoln."

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Source : FaceBook post by Warren Adler from Jun 25, 2013

Warren Adler

#War Quotes #Loss Quotes #Impact Quotes

“Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.”
“That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.”
“Horror movies scare me. I don't really watch them. I'm not a big horror genre fan. I like certain classic horror - like 'Alien', 'Jaws', 'The Exorcist', stuff like that.”
“Walking a dog is a lesson in the simplicities of happiness, but you need to throw sticks to get maximum benefit from the lesson.”
“And I'm the worst liar of all time.”
“Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 05, 2014
“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.”
“Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.”

Source : Frederick William Faber (1860). “Spiritual conferences”, p.34

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