"Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move."

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Source : Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1992). “Georgia Scenes”, p.27, J.S. Sanders Books

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

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“She smiled then, an adorable, sweet smile that took his breath away. He forgot all about trying to maintain an air of civility. His inner caveman came barreling out, grunting and pounding his chest and muttering unintelligible words.”
“When you look into your motherâ€™s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.”

Source : Twitter post from May 11, 2014
“Nonviolence is something very powerful, and the power behind it is not weapons, but the support of the people.”

Source : "Satyagraha 100 Years Later: Gandhi Launches Modern Non-Violent Resistance Movement on Sept. 11, 1906". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 8, 2006.
“When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.”

Source : Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.60, 谷月社
“If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.”
“I didn't come in here to argue with a woman with big hair”
“Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.”
“If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?”

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