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I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle. ↗

— Peter Scott

#always #believed #bogey #danger #eagle

We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

#any #arsenals #bombs #cannot #country

All humans at some time experience injustice, assault, disqualification, invasion and betrayal. No person is completely shielded. We need not trace our family trees very far back or study for long what life was like for our forbears to uncover humanity's abusiveness. The inherited scars of our multigenerational families exist in our family systems as we know them today. The abuse of the past often exists as the shame of today, and the shame is perpetuated through our patterns of interaction. ↗

— Merle A. Fossum

#survivorship #experience

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#bach #beethoven #i #jane #jane austen

I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#family

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#champion #defend #every

To see you naked is to recall the Earth. ↗

— Federico Garcia Lorca

#naked #recall #see #you

I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.' ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

#am #could #i #i am #i do

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother? ↗

— Gabrielle Hamilton

#becoming-your-parents #family #growing-up #humor #parents

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#afraid #am #deliberate #i #i am