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“ But, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. ”

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We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

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A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.

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The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.

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We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.