"The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square, Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it."

-- John Galsworthy

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“Is it possible that there are no coincidences?”

Source : "Signs". www.imdb.com. 2002.
“I've learned that hurting you feels infinitely worse than being hurt myself.”
“The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.”
“See the encounters of Jesus life as windows into possibilities for yours. Accept the invitation to go or strive to go through the narrow door. Choose between life and fear, for the unengaged life is truly not worth living, and has no possibility of salvation or abundance.”
“There are all these levels of pretension in LA. Every time you walk into a cafÃ© or a bar or a restaurant in LA everybody turns around to see if you're famous. Everybody can seem like a celebrity. You can meet somebody who looks like Joe Schmoe and he turns out to be the head of HBO or something. Or you meet a person who just won an Oscar and he looks like he just won an Oscar. And it's a sprawling city, there's so many different parts to it.”
“The way football is being played currently, that I have seen, it's dangerous. It's dangerous and it could impact their long-term mental health. You only get one brain.”
“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”
“And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.”

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