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""Each new resort to violence enlarges the argument against our species, and the task of hope becomes harder."" — Jan 19, 2026 11:29AM
""Each new resort to violence enlarges the argument against our species, and the task of hope becomes harder."" — Jan 19, 2026 11:29AM
“We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“Maybe that’s just the nature of us, ever wishing for things that were and could be rather than things that are and will be. It takes more to hope than to remember.”
― Morning Star
― Morning Star
“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
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“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.
Daniel H. Burnham”
― The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Daniel H. Burnham”
― The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
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