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She must be prepared even for the impossible. Failure to be prepared is a failure to hope.
“A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us. —Daniel Webster Argument on the Murder of Captain White, APRIL 6, 1830. VOL. VI., P. 105.”
― The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All ... the GreatestRescue Mission of World War II
― The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All ... the GreatestRescue Mission of World War II
“Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.”
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“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.”
― Light on Life
― Light on Life
“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
Don’s 2025 Year in Books
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