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And I don’t know a whole lot about the traditions of the time, but I do know that in Slavic culture, disasters such as crop failure are handled by finding the local sorcerer and beating the ever living shit out of him.
“Stop saying they lost. They may have lost up where we live now, but down here they think things are the same. They think they won. And look around, child. Maybe they did.”
― Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond
― Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond
“I disagree. When you die, your opinion of yourself dies with you. What matters is if you’ll be missed.”
― Everybody Dies
― Everybody Dies
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“I still don’t believe God counts up prayers, but I have come to better understand that prayers aren’t so much something directed at God, but rather, at each other. Sure, we can ask God to intervene, but then we’d just be on the sidelines waiting for God to act. We were not put on this earth for the purpose of being observers on the sidelines. We cannot expect all good to flow from God. We have to be participants and interveners.”
― Walking In Daniel's Shoes
― Walking In Daniel's Shoes
“Good Lord!" he said, almost aloud, "in one whole year what have I done? I haven't made one single friend, known what one real man was doing or thinking, done anything I wanted to do, talked out what I wanted to talk, read what I wanted to read, or had time to make the friends I wanted to make. I've been nothing but material— varsity material— society material; I've lost all the imagination I had, and know less than when I came; and I'm the popular man—' the big man'— in the class! Great! Is it my fault or the fault of things up here?”
― Stover at Yale
― Stover at Yale
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