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“That's what happens when people die. They take themselves with them and you never ever find out anything new about them ever.”
― The Safekeep
― The Safekeep
“One of the prizes of old age is its release from competition.”
― Allegorizings
― Allegorizings
“Newspapers rely on keeping us in a constant state of anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the things that really matter to us. Why should I yield to their power and let them tell me what to think?”
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
“It is slothful not to compress your thoughts,” he said.”
― The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
― The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
“... let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal." - President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (June 10th, 1963)”
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