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The Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 73
Context: For help of this, full meekly our Lord shewed the patience that He had in His Hard Passion; and also the joying and the satisfying that He hath of that Passion, for love. And this He shewed in example that we should gladly and wisely bear our pains, for that is great pleasing to Him and endless profit to us. And the cause why we are travailed with them is for lack in knowing of Love. Though the three Persons in the Trinity be all even in Itself, the soul took most understanding in Love; yea, and He willeth that in all things we have our beholding and our enjoying in Love. And of this knowing are we most blind. For some of us believe that God is Almighty and may do all, and that He is All-Wisdom and can do all; but that He is All-Love and will do all, there we stop short. And this not-knowing it is, that hindereth most God’s lovers, as to my sight.
Diaries, General Patton : A Soldier's Life (2002) by Stanley P. Hirshson, p. 661
“Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.”
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”
“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.”
Tyranny of the Status Quo, San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1980) p. 115
“I believe that all men, black, brown, and white, are brothers.”
Source: Común Magazine.
https://revistacomun.com/blog/cuando-el-mundial-dejo-de-representar-al-mundo/
Source: Warsaw Ghetto Memoirs of Janusz Korczak
“The sadness will last forever.”
Attributed to Vincent, as quoted by Theo van gogh in his letter from Paris, to Elisabeth van Gogh, 5 August 1890 http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/21/etc-Theo-Lies.htm
Some of the last words Vincent said to Theo, while dying
1890s
Joe Hisaishi, who wrote music for Hayao Miyazaki's films https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-entertainment/article/1780283/studio-ghibli-composer-joe-hisaishi-talks-about-how,South China Morning Post
“There is nothing in this world so permanent as a temporary emergency.”
The Man Who Sold the Moon (p. 100)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
“We don't need to worry
'Cause when we fall, we know how to land”
Source: Song Permission to Dance
“I love you wildly, insanely, infinitely.”
Variant: I love you madly, irrationally, infinitely.
Source: Doctor Zhivago (1957)
“Absurdity is what I like most in life.”
“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”
Message to linux-kernel mailing list, 2000-08-25, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-08-28 http://lkml.org/lkml/2000/8/25/132,
2000s, 2000-04