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Come then: Let us to the task, to the battle, to the toil—each to our part, each to our station, there is not a week, nor a day, nor an hour to lose. —WINSTON CHURCHILL, 1940
“There's only one lesson to be learned from life, anyway," interrupted
Gloria, not in contradiction but in a sort of melancholy agreement.
"What's that?" demanded Maury sharply. "That there's no lesson to be learned from life.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
Gloria, not in contradiction but in a sort of melancholy agreement.
"What's that?" demanded Maury sharply. "That there's no lesson to be learned from life.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
“But ignorance, while it checks the enthusiasm of the sensible, in no way restrains the fools;”
― His Master's Voice
― His Master's Voice
“The European history of the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men can find themselves standing over death pits with guns in their hands.”
― On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
― On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
“For a time she had no accurate sense of her whereabouts or of the events of the day before, or the day before that; then, like a suspended pendulum, memory began to beat out its story, releasing with each swing a burdened quota of time until her life was given back to her.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“He would find consolation in the reminder that all flesh was as grass, that in the end all our striving came to nothing, but that in that brief aching and vivid time that we call life, one must do all that was possible to protect, conserve, and nurture this phenomenon of life.”
― The Last Best Hope
― The Last Best Hope
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