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Frank McCourt quote: "I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family..."
I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family... Frank McCourt
Ram Dass quote: "In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become..."
In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday? Ram Dass
If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like. Bill Bryson
Jodi Picoult quote: "You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of..."
You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind. Jodi Picoult
The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he could be moved to song, he can do nothing now, he must dig deeper. Jacques Maritain
We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irresponsible to try to protect them from the irrational world they will have to live in when they grow up. The children themselves haven't yet isolated themselves by selfishness and indifference; they do not fall easily into the error of despair; they are considerably braver than most grownups. Our responsibility to them is not to pretend that if... Madeleine L'Engle
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "What I need is someone who will make me do what I can."
What I need is someone who will make me do what I can. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't know anything that mars a good literature so completely as too much truth. Facts contain a great deal of poetry, but you can't use too many of them without damaging your literature. Mark Twain
Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else. Arthur Conan Doyle
I'm alive. When I'm eating that's all I think about. If I'm on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have to fight, it will be just as good a day as any to die. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life is the moment we are living now. Paulo Coelho
Eldridge Cleaver quote: "Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor..."
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. Eldridge Cleaver
Thomas S. Monson quote: "The good you have done, the kind words you have spoken, the..."
The good you have done, the kind words you have spoken, the love you have shown to others, can never be fully measured. Thomas S. Monson
Abraham Lincoln quote: "We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice..."
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. Abraham Lincoln
Tom Robbins quote: "He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but..."
He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated. Tom Robbins
. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better. Jose Saramago

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