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I got a number of very thoughtful responses to the email I sent out last night, most of which I don’t have time to respond to right now. Thanks everyone for the encouragement, questions, criticism. Daniel’s response was particularly inspiring to me and deserves to be shared. The resistance of Israeli Jewish people to the occupation and the enormous risk taken by those refusing to serve in the Israeli military offers an example, especially for those of us living in the United States, of how to... Rachel Corrie
Alain de Botton quote: "A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still..."
A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to. Alain de Botton
The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few simple stretching exercises and you can be knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door. You'll be amazed how time flies. Chuck Palahniuk
Tom Robbins quote: "Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets."
Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets. Tom Robbins
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to..."
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. Fyodor Dostoevsky
I couldn't resist him, his eyes were like yours, his hair was exactly the shade of brown. He's just not as tall, but I couldn't tell, it was dark and I was lying down. Amy Winehouse
I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best friends must necessarily be the ones who best understand you. As if there weren't far too much understanding in the world already; above all, that understanding between lovers, celebrated in song and story, which is actually such torture that no two of them can bear it without frequent separations or fights. Christopher Isherwood
S. E. Hinton quote: "If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you..."
If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky. S. E. Hinton
Aristophanes quote: "[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with..."
[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily. Aristophanes
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett) Jane Austen
No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert sand. And no faith is so precious as that which lives and triumphs through adversity. Tested faith brings experience. You would never have believed your own weakness had you not needed to pass through trials. And you would never have known God’s strength had His strength not been needed to carry you through. Charles Spurgeon
Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest your readers. What merely interests you is sure to bore them. (from Workbook) Sarah Brightman
You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there. Maria Callas
If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic. Ann Druyan
And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace. Diana Wynne Jones

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