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Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.
classic quote by George Washington
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Whoever, in the present juncture of our affairs, can proclaim his entire political creed as frankly in Charleston as in Boston, can do it only because he has stricken from the list our distinctive national principle, without which we are not Americans at all — the natural equal rights of men. If Washington or Jefferson or Madison should utter upon his native soil today the opinions he entertained and expressed upon this question, he would be denounced as a fanatical abolitionist. To declare the right of all men to liberty is sectional, because slavery is afraid of liberty and strikes the mouth that speaks the word.
quote by George William Curtis
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Military people have a heavy investment in rules against torture, not only because we want to protect our own POWs from reciprocal brutalities… but also because war is so terrible that it desperately requires any limits anyone can agree on, any gesture toward dignity, any mitigation suggesting civilized scruple. There isn’t even persuasive evidence that torture makes its victims tell their secrets, instead of saying whatever we want to hear.
quote by John Leonard
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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
quote by William Dean Howells
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I Love You too
When years ago I told her, I love you,
I remember seeing green, black, and blue,
In my stomach butterflies,
When I looked into her eyes
I fainted when she said; I love you too.
limerick by Marius Alexandru (2 February 2021)
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Mom
You held me in your arms for the first time,
Warm tears were rolling down on your white cheeks,
And for the first time, I felt the love's delight,
I understood that this is how love speaks.
Drops of happiness betrayed your infinite excitement,
Our two hearts as one then began to beat,
entering in a new stage of love's enlightenment,
Your smile was angelic, and your breath so sweet.
So many sick days you watched over me,
Whispering with love, “You’ll be fine!”
So many late nights spent on your knee,
You taught me love's reason to shine.
You were there with me when I took the first step,
You taught me when to move and when to stand still,
When to leave my worries on the doorstep,
You have inspired me with your power and your will.
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poem by Marius Alexandru (28 February 2021)
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sometimes when the soul can no longer be silent it begins to write
quote by Marius Alexandru
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A human doctor saves the individual, a veterinarian saves mankind.
quote by Louis Pasteur
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
quote by W.E.B. Du Bois
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Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little. Make use of time while it is present with you. It depends upon your will, and not upon the number of days, to have a sufficient length of life. Is it possible you can imagine never to arrive at the place towards which you are continually going? and yet there is no journey but hath its end. And, if company will make it more pleasant or more easy to you, does not all the world go the self-same way?
quote by Michel de Montaigne
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