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So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has already happened. the pain that cut my spirit loose. I will hold that pain in my hand until it becomes hard and shiny, more clear. And then my fierceness can come back, my golden side, my black side. I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughter's tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose. She will fight me, because this is the nature of two tigers. But I will win and giver her my spirit,... Amy Tan
Thomas Fuller quote: "A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more..."
A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library. Thomas Fuller
Charles Darwin quote: "We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for..."
We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence. Charles Darwin
The night had fallen. I had let my tools drop from my hands. Of what moment now was my hammer, my bolt, or thirst, or death? On one star, one planet, my planet, the Earth, there was a little prince to be comforted. I took him in my arms, and rocked him. I said to him: "The flower that you love is not in danger. I will draw you a muzzle for your sheep. I will draw you a railing to put around your flower. I will --" I did not know what to say to him. I felt awkward and blundering. I did not... Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Thomas Jefferson quote: "Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful...."
Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time. Thomas Jefferson
Most people go through their whole lives," John went on, "and never have one miracle happen to them. You've had dozens and dozens, and you still want more! It's like God gives you a brownie, I mean a really good brownie, but you can't be content with it. You want the whole pan of brownies. Nobody gets that. Martha Beck
Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence. Wendell Berry
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quote: "Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more..."
Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination. I have come to believe that genuine democracy cannot exist without the freedom to imagine and the right to use imaginative works without any restrictions. To have a whole life, one must have the possibility of publicly shaping and expressing private worlds, dreams, thoughts and desires, of constantly having access to a dialogue between the public and private worlds.... Azar Nafisi
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that,..."
Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. Robert A. Heinlein
Wendell Berry quote: "What could be more superstitious than the idea that money..."
What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food? Wendell Berry
Isabel Allende quote: "The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young..."
The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything. Isabel Allende
Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock. George Bernard Shaw
W. G. Sebald quote: "It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more..."
It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane. W. G. Sebald
Asher was a vampire. How much more dangerous could he be with a gun? But I couldn't do it. "Let me test my understanding. Is Asher going to ride in the car with us to the meeting?"I must to give you directions," Asher said. Then lean against the Jeep." He frowned at me in an amused, condescending sort of way. Excuse me?"I don't care if you're the second coming of the Antichrist, you can't sit behind me in my own car until I know you're not carrying a weapon." Asher smiled briliantly at both... Laurell K. Hamilton

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