Megan Dyson

“At his most prescient, President Roosevelt tried to warn the world, in his Quarantine Speech, of the growing threat to international security. “The peace, the freedom, and the security of ninety percent of the population is being jeopardized by the remaining ten percent who are threatening a breakdown of all international order and law,” he announced. The speech caused an uproar. President Roosevelt was accused of trying to circumvent the neutrality laws of America. December—The Japanese Army launched the massacre of Nanking. In a period of six weeks, according to various estimates, over 300,000 people were brutally murdered. Over 20,000 cases of rape were reported.”
― Robert L. Beir, Roosevelt and the Holocaust: How FDR Saved the Jews and Brought Hope to a Nation

“Men anxious for this world are like owls that wake all night to catch mice.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“THE SPIRES OF OXFORD I saw the spires of Oxford
  As I was passing by,
The gray spires of Oxford
  Against the pearl-gray sky.
My heart was with the Oxford men
  Who went abroad to die.
The years go fast in Oxford,
  The golden years and gay,
The hoary Colleges look down
  On careless boys at play.
But when the bugles sounded war
  They put their games away.
They left the peaceful river,
  The cricket-field, the quad,
The shaven lawns of Oxford,
  To seek a bloody sod—
They gave their merry youth away
  For country and for God.
God rest you, happy gentlemen,
  Who laid your good lives down,
Who took the khaki and the gun
  Instead of cap and gown.
God bring you to a fairer place
  Than even Oxford town.
Winifred M. Letts”
― George Herbert Clarke, A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917

“When you become aware that you’re putting something off and you’re rationalizing why, start taking action immediately. Do something small.”
― Zoe McKey, Daily Habit Makeover: Beat Procrastination, Get More Productive, Focus Better, and Become Healthier in Body and Mind