"Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free."

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Source : Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

Bliss Carman

#Heart Quotes #Army Quotes #Sunshine Quotes

“There's no one I trust in show business more than Sabrina Wind. She's my eyes and ears when I can't be there. She weighs in on everything, from scripts to sets to advertising.”
“I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power wouldn't I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn't I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.”

Source : Life Interview, January 1991.
“Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”
“Honduras has one of the highest murder rates in the world. The drug trade is responsible for much of that.”
“If we go as far as we can into the darkness, regardless of the consequences, I believe a midnight truth will free us from our bondage to violence and bring us to the light of peace.”

Source : James W. Douglass (2010). “JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters”, p.19, Simon and Schuster
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
“Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!”
“The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. -Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE”

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