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It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of our illusions. Churchill tried and failed to preserve one empire. He failed to preserve his own empire, but succeeded in aggrandizing two much larger ones. He seems to have used crisis after crisis as an excuse to extend his own power. His petulant refusal to relinquish the leadership was the despair of postwar British Conservatives; in my opinion this refusal had to do with his yearning to accomplish something that 'history' had so far denied him—the winning of a democratic election. ↗


— Christopher Hitchens


#britain #british-empire #cold-war #conservative-party-uk #crisis

I don't expect people to agree with all my votes. ↗


— Arlen Specter


#expect #i #people #votes

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. ↗


— Saint Augustine


#gospel #gospels #like #reject #you

The blessing hands of Christ are like a roof that protects us. But at the same time, they are a gesture of opening up, tearing the world open so that heaven my enter in, may become "present" within it. ↗


— Pope Benedict XVI


#inspirational #prepare #protection #religious #inspirational

You tell me that you sometimes view the dark side of your Diana, and there no doubt you discover many Spots which I rather wish were erased, than conceal'd from you. Do not judge by this, that your opinion is an indifferent thing to me, (were it so, I should look forward with a heavey Heart,) but it is far otherways, for I had rather stand fair there, and be thought well of by Lysander than by the greater part of the World besides. I would fain hope that those faults which you discover, proceed more, from a wrong Head, than a bad Heart. E'er long May I be connected with a Friend from whose Example I may form a more faultless conduct, and whose benevolent mind will lead him to pardon, what he cannot amend. ↗


— Abigail Adams


#historical #humanity #imperfection #inspiring #love

My daughter, people are only used to seeing the glorified in a story, because a story is only a tiny, tiny piece of a person’s life. Legends, sacred writings, they’re all like that. But I assure you, dear child, every one of those people up there on that wall felt like, thought like, and suffered like you! ↗


— Darryl Steven Markowitz


#intrigue #introspective #inspirational

At one point in the story, following a brazen daytime bank robbery, Electro is shown escaping from the authorities by climbing up the side of a building, as easily as Spider-Man . . . we see one observer exclaim, "Look!! That strangely-garbed man is racing up the side of the building!" A second man on the street picks up the narrative: "He's holding on to the iron beams in the building by means of electric rays—using them like a magnet!! Incredible!" There are three feelings inspired by this scene. The first is wonder as to why people rarely use the phrase "strangely-garbed" anymore. The second is nostalgia for the bygone era when pedestrians would routinely narrate events occurring in front of them, providing exposition for any casual bystander. And the third is pleasure at the realization that Electro's climbing this building is actually a physically plausible use of his powers. ↗


— James Kakalios


#electro #electromagnetism #physics #inspirational

When we involve others in spontaneous acts of kindness, we go from being strangers to becoming a united team connected at the heart level. ↗


— Molly Friedenfeld


#connected #heart-level #joy #kindness #love

Having a vested interest in other souls unconditionally creates a ripple effect that produces miracles in the lives of those around us. ↗


— Molly Friedenfeld


#compassion #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #joy #kindness

In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music. ↗


— David Baker


#ego #i #music #rather #realize






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