America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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- Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
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- Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
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