“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.”
Mario Puzo (1920–1999) American Novelist
“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.”
Mario Puzo (1920–1999) American Novelist
“In separateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength.”
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
“Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive,
The blessing lies.”
John Townsend Trowbridge (1827–1916) American author
Twoscore and Ten.
“Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.”
M. Scott Peck (1936–2005) American psychiatrist
Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
Source: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 215
“But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
Letter to Thomas Cushing (1773) http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/franklin-the-works-of-benjamin-franklin-vol-vi-letters-and-misc-writings-1772-1775#lf1438-06_head_007. <br class="br">Context: But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength, both in numbers and wealth; … unless, by a neglect of military discipline, we should lose all martial spirit …; for there is much truth in the Italian saying, Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.
“We have very similar brains. But they come out in different personalities.”
Guy Berryman (1978) bassist
Chris Martin, on Berryman's reticence
Scaggs, Austin; Corbijn, Anton (2005-08-25), "COLDPLAY'S QUIET STORM". Rolling Stone. (981):40-46
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"Let love embrace the ten thousand things; Heaven and earth are a single body."
'With sayings such as these, Hui Shih tried to introduce a more magnanimous view of the world and to enlighten the rhetoricians.'
Zhuangzi, Ch. 33, as translated by Burton Watson (1968), p. 374; this contains the core of what has survived of Hui Shi's philosophy, most of the records of it having been eradicated in the vast "burning of books and burying of scholars" during the Legalism of the Qin dynasty.
Suman Pokhrel (1967) Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist
<span class="plainlinks"> Foreword, 'Tales of Transformation: English Translation of Tagore's Chitrangada and Chandalika', Lopamudra Banerjee, (2018). https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DQPD8F4/</span> <br class="br">From Prose