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John Lothrop Motley quote: "A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to..."

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

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Nature constantly begins the same things over again, years, days, hours, spaces too. And numbers run end to end, one after another. This makes something in a way infinite and eternal. It is not that any of this is really infinite and eternal, but these finite entities multiply infinitely. Thus only number, which multiplies them, seems to me to be infinite. Blaise Pascal
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I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be. Anne Lamott
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Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human. Your mother made a terrible mistake, but she tried to fix it.''Good night,' I said, and rolled onto my side.'There is nothing perfect,' August said from the doorway. 'There is only life. Sue Monk Kidd
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Heath, I believed in him when I first met him, and helped and supported him. He went on to obvious success in the States and then I had him support me. It can be a lonely, horrible, hard place. It's great just to have someone to call to say 'I know, man, I was there' Martin Henderson
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. George Eliot
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I don't like acting; not in front of the camera. Spike Lee
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A great American city is fighting for its life. Marc Morial
My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word. Erica Jong
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If you are going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill