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There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers. ↗

— David O. McKay

#crying #did #especially #fathers #freedom

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future. ↗

— George Herbert Mead

#events #experience #future #however #including

I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#apprenticeship #bond #bond movie #doing #feel

The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#convince #got #i #lavish #me

So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilisation, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates a destiny that is divine, with human fatality; so long as the three problems of the age — the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of woman by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night — are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a yet more extended point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#introduction #preface #age

When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#gone with the wind #i #knowing #level #not knowing

I choose to be more prepared than I'm expected to be. ↗

— Michael Michele

#expected #i #more #prepared #than

Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it. ↗

— Adam Michnik

#america #duty #give #had #help

Your connections might get you in the door, but it won't keep you there. And if you haven't prepared, you'll suck. ↗

— Vic Mignogna

#door #get #haven #keep #might

I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't prefer to talk about my family. ↗

— Luis Miguel

#adamant #am #family #i #i am