"No one has the right to use America's rivers and America's Waterways, that belong to all the people. as a sewer. The banks of a river may belong to one man or one industry or one State, but the waters which flow between the banks should belong to all the people."

-- Lyndon B. Johnson

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“The path toward peace is much easier than the path toward war and confrontation.”
“War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness to unintended secondary results.”
“People here want the team to win and to do well. The thing is, we know when to shoot the puck.”
“The person who is living by grace sees this vast contrast between his own sins against God and the offenses of others against him. He forgives others because he himself has been so graciously forgiven. He realizes that, by receiving Godâ€™s forgiveness through Christ, he has forfeited the right to be offended when others hurt him.”
“There's times when I just have to quit thinking... and the only way I can quit thinking is by shopping.”
“In addition, help your children learn self-discipline by such activities as learning to play a musical instrument or other demanding skill. I am reminded of the story of the salesman who came to a house one hot summer day. Through the screen door he could see a young boy practicing his scales on the piano. His baseball glove and hat were by the side of the piano bench. He said, "Say, boy, is your mother home?" To which the boy replied, "What do you think?" Thank heavens for conscientious parents!”
“Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.”

Source : "Speechless" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.newyorker.com. September 12, 2011.
“Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.”

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