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“The home is the center of life. It is a refuge from the grind of work, the pressure of school, and the menace of the streets. We say that at home, we can be ourselves. Everywhere else, we are someo...”
“I expected to be happy, but let me tell you something. Anticipating happiness and being happy are two entirely different things. I told myself that all I wanted to do was go to the mall. I wanted t...”
“The sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits;- on the French coast the lightGleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil ...”
“Act with though awareness and love in the present moment then you will never need to worry about the thought of regret.”
“I believe in happy endings, and i feel this movie has advanced long enough.”
“She sealed his lips with a wanton kiss; 'Though I forgive your breaking your vows to heaven, I expect you to keep your vows to me.”
“Waiting from heaven for the spark to fall.”
“Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not beca...”
“... Corellian curses being a synergistic blend of vulgarity, obscenity, and outright blasphemy that were the only things really worth saying when one was in the middle of being blown to monatomic d...”
“He'd made a name for himself out there in the world beyond not just in spite of the distinctly unfashionable persona he presented, but, perhaps, BECAUSE of it.”
“The author attributes part of the Carter-Reagan divide to their respective attitudes toward the city from which they governed. Carter was deeply suspicious of its coziness. Reagan intended to enjoy...”
“The author, at the time a Carter speechwriter in the 1980 campaign, showed visible distress at his boss's performance and was warned by a friend in the traveling press, lest he become the story.”
“The more spiritual successes that Edwards experienced, the more he seemed to intentionally infuse his sermons with language deemed to move a persons emotional centertheir soulsto spiritually and ph...”
“Edwardss God was glorious, full of beauty, and seemingly uninterested in making people feel insecure. Edwards was a mystic, a man who didnt simply write or preach about God, he experienced him.”
“Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.”
“People can't change. We're pre-programmed robots going through the motions. We're the same at death as we are at birth.”
“It is not the spirit of wealth, of learning, or of culture that can make the church of value, or a power for good in the world, but the spirit of Christ only.”
“Don't care about gods. Gods are irrelevant. What counts is people. What counts is having respect for each other.”
“Im a screwed-up person who no longerknows how to communicate with the people I love. But I meant everything I told you in my letter.”
“Everyone ate as a group, and a huge cauldron of dumpster-dived gruel bubbled over a campfire, tended by a grubby-handed group of chefs dicing potatoes and onions on a piece of cardboard on the grou...”
