"Gigantic, willful, young, Chicago sitteth at the northwest gates."

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Source : William Vaughn Moody (1901). “Gloucester Moors and Other Poems”

William Vaughn Moody

#Cities Quotes #Chicago Quotes #Young Quotes

“If you are not able to provide security for your own country, how can you guarantee liberties?”
“The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.”
“She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.”
“The best computer is a man, and itâ€™s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.”
“time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern ...”

Source : Aphra Behn (1871). “The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn: With Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes...”, p.125
“Looking and not finding is certainly one of the most frustrating ways to spend time.”
“As much as I have films and all that sort of stuff, a lot of my memories are to do with relationships and love.”
“Fear is a wet blanket that smothers the fiery passion God deposited in your heart when he formed you. Fear freezes us into inaction. Frozen ideas, frozen souls, frozen bodies can't move, can't dream, can't risk, can't love, and can't live. Fear chains us.”

Source : Stasi Eldredge (2013). “Becoming Myself: Embracing God's Dream of You”, p.108, David C Cook

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