"A literary achievement of the highest order."

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David Guterson

#Order Quotes #Achievement Quotes

“Compassion is of little value if it just remains an idea. It must motivate how we respond to others and be reflective in all our thoughts and actions”
“Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?”

Source : "The Descendants". Book by Kaui Hart Hemmings, p. 236, 2008.
“All Iraqis can unite to defeat terrorism and can unite to rebuild the country.”

Source : "CNN Late edition with Wolf Blitzer". www.cnn.com. March 19, 2006.
“Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene supports the mind supports the body too.”

Source : John Armstrong, John Dyer (1858). “The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations”, p.59
“In the end, the extent of our own success will be measured by the accomplishments we have helped create in others.”
“Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.”
“Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914 which finally brought practically universal acceptance to the theory that the material world contains but two fundamental entities, namely, positive and negative electrons, exactly alike in charge, but differing widely in mass, the positive electron-now usually called a proton-being 1850 times heavier than the negative, now usually called simply the electron.”
“A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.”

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