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Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable. Why did it take him being whipped within an inch of his life to see it? Suzanne Collins
Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world? William Makepeace Thackeray
You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling. Chuck Palahniuk
Cooperativeness is not so much learning how to get along with others as taking the kinks out of ourselves, so that others can get along with us. Thomas S. Monson
Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real state of our fellowship, of our sanctification. What may appear weak and trifling to us may be great and glorious to God. Just as the Christian should not be constantly feeling his spiritual pulse, so, too, the Christian community has not been given to us by God for us to be constantly taking its temperature. The more thankfully we daily receive what is given to us,... Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Satan takes occasion of the frailty of the bodily temple and says, 'Now you know you cannot do that; you are so infirm, you cannot concentrate your mind,' etc. Never allow bodily infirmities to hinder you obeying the commands of Jesus. Oswald Chambers
Why were Jack and his brother digging post holes? A fence there would run parallel to the one that already enclosed the farmyard. The Welches had no animals to keep in or out - a fence there could serve no purpose. Their work was pointless. Years later, while I was waiting for a boat to take me across the river, I watched two Vietnamese women methodically hitting a discarded truck tire with sticks. They did it for a good long while, and were still doing it when I crossed the river. They... Tobias Wolff
Anne Bronte quote: "I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step..."
I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of. Anne Bronte
Emma Goldman quote: "Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it..."
Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force. Emma Goldman
Douglas Adams quote: "I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance..."
I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. Douglas Adams
Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God? Perhaps some of us would like to think so, but in fact this destruction is taking place because we have allowed ourselves to believe, and to live, a mated pair of economic lies: that nothing has a value that is not assigned to it by the market; and that the economic life of our communities can safely be handed over to the great corporations. (from... Wendell Berry
Carl Sandburg quote: "Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it runs by."
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it runs by. Carl Sandburg
But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning. Haruki Murakami
I am in love with you', I responded.He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh.'Of course you are,' he replied. 'I understand perfectly because I'm in love with myself. The fact that I'm not transfixed in front of the nearest mirror takes a great deal of self-control.'It was my turn to laugh. Anne Rice
Seth Godin quote: "Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with..."
Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself. Seth Godin

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