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You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all. ↗

— John Cassavetes

#express #must #really #risk #willing

We were thus led to organize ourselves, as men who had fought the war together, in order to support those statesmen who had truly understood the lessons of that World War, thus attempting to prevent its recurrence. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#fought #had #led #lessons #men

The cyclone had set the house down gently, very gently – for a cyclone—in the midst of a country of marvelous beauty. There were lovely patches of green sward all about, with stately trees bearing rich and luscious fruits. Banks of gorgeous flowers were on every hand, and birds with rare and brilliant plumage sang and fluttered in the trees and bushes. A little way off was a small brook, rushing and sparkling along between green banks, and murmuring in a voice very grateful to a little girl who had lived so long on the dry, gray prairies. ↗

— L. Frank Baum

#description #fantasy #beauty

It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#attention #because #conditions #employment #men

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#had #humiliating #law #mainly #means

Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#health #ideals #service #those #us

We have long honored those who gave their lives during the unfortunate reality of war. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#gave #honored #lives #long #reality

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#itself #life #living #meaning #meaning of

The Lord has never spoken to me, but I feel Chick-fil-A has been His gift. ↗

— Dan T. Cathy

#feel #gift #his #i #i feel

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one. ↗

— Marcus Porcius Cato

#i #men #much #rather #statue