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#1

“It is hard to forget that which it is worse than useless to remember.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod

tags: humor, memorable, wisdom

#2

“Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

tags: dignity, life, survival

392 likes

#3

“What you do is so loud, I can't hear what you say."

Anonymous”
― Mike Addington, The Home Place

tags: behavior, character, honesty, truthful, wisdom

4 likes

#4

“The only easy day was yesterday.”
― US Navy SEALs

tags: army, inspirational, motivational

81 likes

#5

“... character reigns preeminent in determining potential.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

32 likes

#6

“Without dignity, identity is erased.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

tags: dignity, identity, identity-confusion, traumatized

189 likes

#7

“People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

tags: democracy, equality, government, misattributed

3484 likes

#8

“Flannery O'Connor, in a note to the editor of "Wise Blood" that pertained to changes he wanted to make, wrote "Perhaps I am prematurely arrogant . . .”
― Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

tags: southern-literature, southern-writers

7 likes

#9

“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

tags: aging, death-and-dying

1147 likes

#10

“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
― Edward Albee

3384 likes

#11

“France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me years ago when I read how her noble sons had defended America in its cradle. Today I am proud that I am one of the millions who will come to save our heroine from the clutches of the villain from across the Rhine.”
― William Arthur Sirmon, That's War

tags: america, france, germany, historical-romance, history, inspirational, military-history, patriotism, rhine, world-history, wwi

6 likes

#12

“What punishment a free people can mete out to its enemy when aroused by unjust attack! Free America was speaking! Mighty America was speaking! I trembled with pride! My America was speaking!”
― William Arthur Sirmon, That's War

tags: inspirational, patriotic

4 likes

#13

“May tropic winds fill your sails”
― Gordon England

1 likes

#14

“Your dream is just over the horizon”
― Gordon England

1 likes

#15

“The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
― Katharine Graham

2581 likes

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