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“Sometimes it is not the people who change, it is just the mask that falls off.”
― JoDee Neathery, Wings Against The Wind

“A slither to my right. It reminded me that people weren’t the only danger out here. Hopefully, what I thought were silent steps were thunderous to the desert snakes.”
― Murray Bailey, The Prisoner of Acre

“Acceptance can be so freeing. Before you know it, you’ll move toward forgiveness, which leads to wholeness.”
― Arelis Calkins, Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child

“The wise have the mental agility to anticipate and adjust to dire circumstances faster than most.”
― Isham Cook, The Tao of Poison

“Trudy felt as if she had finally come home for the first time in her life.”
― Marcia Breece, The Last Bottle

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― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“What tastes good together in the kitchen often belongs together in the bed.”
― Charles Dowding, Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests

“I’m just keeping the faith. I continue to eat well, take turmeric, cayenne pepper, milk and honey, and exercise my eye muscles frequently.”
― Traci Medford-Rosow, Unblinded: One Man's Courageous Journey Through Darkness to Sight

“Friendship between tow persons, or two nations, is an unbreakable bond, a tie which cannot be cut. An honourable heart does not cast aside a friend because he is in trouble, nor even if he changes his nature and becomes a criminal. Between two nations friendship must also be eternal, else the friend is false and being false in one event was always false. And what was our crime against the Americans? The Great Change? But is it a crime to change a government? By whose law can it be called a crime? It is of no more importance, between friends, than for one to change his garment! For this lack of reason our love for Americans is changed to hate. I fear for the future! A generation is growing up here in our country which has never seen an American face or heard an American voice. What do they know of Americans except to hate them as they are taught to do? There is no hate so dangerous as that which once was love.
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- To the Americans, Communism is a crime. They will have none of it.
- But why, when it is ours, not theirs?
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- I suppose this American concern with a form of government springs from their own history. Their ancestors fled from Europe to escape tyranny from their ancient rulers. Freedom was their dream. To them, therefore, tyranny is endemic in Communism. They will have none of it. It is not we who are Chinese whom they hate. It is the tyranny they imagine.”
― Pearl S. Buck, Three Daughters of Madame Liang

“I knew how I sounded - slow and oafish, like the cousin who gets ditched and goes on playing alone, as if he'd planned it that way. I couldn't quite tell her about the daily beauty, how I didn't tire of seeing 6 a.m. light on the telephone wires. When I was younger, I'd expected to grow out of the gap between the self I knew and what I heard myself say. I'd expected to feel more like one single person.”
― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

“Never assume people understand how your brand can change their lives. Tell them.”
― Donald Miller, Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

“Great labour, either of mind or body, continued for several days together is, in most men, naturally followed by a great desire of relaxation, which, if not restrained by force, or by some strong necessity, is almost irresistible. It is the call of nature, which requires to be relieved by some indulgence, sometimes of ease only, but sometimes too of dissipation and diversion. If it is not complied with, the consequences are”
― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“And then the man reminded Max, with a serious but suave and practiced air, that freedom was a debt that could be repaid only by purchasing the freedom of others.”
― Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay