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There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding. — Georges Duhamel

If I don't give up in the ring, I don't give up in life ... I try to live my life the same way. — Eddie Alvarez

To be a disciple means that we deliberately identify ourselves with God's interests in other people. That ye love one another; as I have loved you ... — Oswald Chambers

I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect the
speaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental. — David Foster Wallace

Hold out what men have said. (Desmonde and Delilah backtracked) — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

If you have a poverty of heart then you are the poorest among the poor. — Bryant McGill

I am certain I have not a right feeling towards women
at this moment I am striving to be just to them, but I cannot. Is it because they fall so far beneath my boyish imagination? When I was a schoolboy I thought a fair woman a pure Goddess; my mind was a soft nest in which some one of them slept, though she knew it not. — John Keats

Still, I could have been kinder." She frowned, her eyes wandering. "Sibling relationships can be complex. I wonder, sometimes, if my own actions had some bearing upon the paths my brothers chose. Could I have been a better sister to them? Perhaps, as a young ymbryne, I was too focused on myself. — Ransom Riggs

Inside, the box was divided into tiered chambers, each with a lacquered lid, and these held a selection of ground and whole spices: sage, turmeric, cumin, ginger, mustard, cinnamon, asafetida, mace, cayenne, and cloves. I felt like an emperor receiving the treasures of a new country. The odor rising from the box was like a clambering vine wrapping itself thickly around my head, musky with the deep minerals of the earth and dusting my shoulders with a rainbow of pollen. — Eli Brown

From the many years he'd spent in the Omega Agency, the special agent understood there were no obvious good guys or bad guys on the world stage. Contrary to the PR spin generated within Congress and spoon-fed to the well-meaning American public by a gullible or at least malleable media, Kentbridge also knew there were no clear sides anymore. As he often told the orphans, patriotism was a useless emotion because the modern world was no longer shaped by countries or governments. In fact, nations had long since been superseded by the vast spider web of elite conspirators spanning the globe. — James Morcan

Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth. They are the birthright of every American. — George H. W. Bush

I looked around, and I don't know why, but I assure you that never, never before, did this land, this river, this jungle, the very arch of this blazing sky, appear to me so hopeless and so dark, so impenetrable to human thought, so pitiless to human weakness. — Joseph Conrad

It is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false morality; it is mischievous by its hypocrisy; by its fanaticism; by its dogmatism; by its threats; by its hopes; by its promises. — Frances Wright

I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of imagined struggle that gets projected into commodities like kente cloth for example on the one hand and images like the Million Man March. — Angela Davis

She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. ( ... ), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky. — Scott Westerfeld