Quote by Ernest Hemingway
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. – Ernest Hemingway

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Ive tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that Im afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. – Ernest Hemingway

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Hope
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There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. – Ernest Hemingway

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Death
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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. – Ernest Hemingway

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good
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. – Victor Hugo

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Imagination

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. – Wislawa Szymborska

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Imagination

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart. – Washington Irving

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Imagination

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? – Sun Tzu

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Imagination

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I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. – Voltaire

Category:
Attitude

Thats why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. Its like a tonic. – Studs Terkel

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Health

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. – Frank Herbert (1920–1986), Dune Chronicles

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Wise Words

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. – William Cowper

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Goodbye