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Just when summer gets perfect-fresh nights, soft sun, casual breezes, crushingly full and quietly cooling trees, empty beaches, and free weekends- it ends. Life is…

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It's possible to have too much in life. Too many clothes jade our appreciation of new ones; too much money can out…
The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in…
We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one…
Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.
Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is…
A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation…
Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious…
To be contemplative we must remove the clutter from our lives, surround ourselves with beauty, and consciously, relentlessly, persistently, give clutter away…
Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about…
It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we…
Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step…
In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world.

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On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies,… — Erma Bombeck
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing… — Winston Churchill
Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with… — Douglas MacArthur
Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency.… — Gordon B. Hinckley
We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and… — Winston Churchill
You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches. — Frank Deford
Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed. — Unknown Author
We play at the world's most beautiful beaches but in the world's most challenging conditions. It is not like you play one… — Karch Kiraly
We know that progress is not inevitable. But neither was victory upon these beaches. Now, as then, the inner voice tells us… — William J. Clinton
That road to V-E Day was hard and long, and traveled by weary and valiant men. And history will always record where… — George W. Bush
To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing… — William O. Douglas
Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but… — Archibald MacLeish

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