Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
I felt like I was the saddest boy in the universe. Summer had come and gone. Summer had come and gone. And the world was ending.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
Gary Numan
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My mother persevered through much adversity because she possessed faith in God, self-respect, and an awareness of history; most especially, she was astute in Africa's significant contribution to world history. Sister Betty refused to live her life as a victim.
Ilyasah Shabazz
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Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.
Florence Nightingale
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Do you say it is incomprehensible that there is nothingness in the world and that we are partly composed of nothing? Well, why not? Is not the whole world enveloped by nothingness? Since you concede that point, admit as well that it is just as easy for the world to have nothingness within as without.
Cyrano de Bergerac
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'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause - and of obstinacy in a bad one.
Laurence Sterne
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It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared.
James Forrestal
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It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.
John Eldredge
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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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For Guido Farinaro, USMC. These are yours - not mine! With love and respect, your platoon leader. Pete Pace.
Peter Pace
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The snow had begun in the gloaming,And busily all the nightHad been heaping field and highwayWith a silence deep and white.
James Russell Lowell
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I would put her appeal down to consistency. In their eyes, she has never let them down. There's a sameness, but at the same time a vitality.
Prince Andrew
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I felt like I was the saddest boy in the universe. Summer had come and gone. Summer had come and gone. And the world was ending.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
