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Whittaker Chambers Quotes

Whittaker Chambers quote: "A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory."

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory.

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She had spent all her life in feeling miserable; this misery was her native element; its fluctuations, its varying depths, alone save her the impression of moving and living. What bothers me is that a sense of misery, and nothing else, is not enough to make a permanent soul. My enormous and morose Mademoiselle is all right on earth but impossible in eternity. Vladimir Nabokov
So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times. Jack Vance
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He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously. Mary Lou Williams
Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God. Robert Grosseteste
I'm so happy now. I love that I'm in a relationship right now... I want a life... The past five years or so I've found my groove and my balance. Kelly Clarkson
They keep extending these unemployment benefits to the point where people are afraid to go out and get a job, because the job doesn't pay as much as the unemployment benefit does. Sharron Angle
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In hindsight, that time out of football gives you the hunger to want to get back to basics and play football. Alan Smith
We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America's 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could be brought into the country. Bob Graham
When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be? or so it feel? welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence. C. S. Lewis
But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you. Vanessa Kerry
Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction. George W. Bush
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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. Marcus Tullius Cicero
In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it. Henry Louis Gates
She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing itself not to outdistance incompetence. She could not function to the rule of: Pipe down-keep down-slow down-don't do your best, it is not wanted! Ayn Rand