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In the long years to come, not only will the people of this island but of the world, wherever the bird of freedom chirps in human hearts, look back to what we've done, and they will say 'do not despair, do not yield...march straightforward. Winston Churchill
We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. For instance, how much more remarkable it is for us all to be stuck-half of us upside down-by a mysterious attraction, to a spinning ball that has been swinging in space for billions of years, than to be carried on the back of an elephant supported on a tortoise swimming in a... Richard P. Feynman
He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back. Ray Bradbury
Anne Lamott quote: "Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they..."
Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back. Anne Lamott
Peter Singer quote: "What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and..."
What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did. Peter Singer
End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it. J. R. R. Tolkien
Bill Maher quote: "Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally..."
Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally for - looking up exes to see how fat they got? Bill Maher
Nicole Richie quote: "You just have to go after what you want and if it doesn't want..."
You just have to go after what you want and if it doesn't want you back then so be it; it doesn't deserve you anyways. Nicole Richie
Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall. Jodi Picoult
Plotinus quote: "I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine..."
I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All. Plotinus
Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation. Margaret Mitchell
John Knowles quote: "As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face,..."
As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck. John Knowles
But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back? Wilkie Collins
The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house. A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea. The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though... F. Scott Fitzgerald
Agatha Christie quote: "She's a gipsy really. That's why she can't stay in houses. She..."
She's a gipsy really. That's why she can't stay in houses. She wanders away and comes back again. Agatha Christie

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