By a curious quirk of human nature, rather than Mother Nature, every American family of the surname Washington is related to George, all Adamses are of the family of John Quincy, and all Jeffersons are cousins of Thomas—at least as far as family traditions are concerned.
—Elizabeth Shown Mills, C.G., F.A.S.G.
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If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
—Coach John Wooden
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I’ve come too far to see the end now
—Nothing Left To Say, Imagine Dragons
Even if my way is wrong
But I keep pushing on and on and on and on
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“Shall we never, never get rid of this Past?” cried he, keeping up the earnest tone of his preceding conversation. “It lies upon the Present like a giant’s dead body!”
—Holgrave, The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man: also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
—Sir Walker Scott
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There is no such thing as a coincidence.
—Gibbs’ Rule #39
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Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
—John 6:12
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Like a river that don’t know where it’s flowing
—Bruce Springsteen, E Street Band
I took a wrong turn and I just kept going
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I don’t know who my grandfather was, I am much more concerned to know who his grandson will be.
—Abraham Lincoln
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For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
—Acts IV:20