Olene Mcaffee

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Olene’s Quotes

“There was never any comfortable way to mention or discuss one's successes without breaking the rule against bragging, even if one didn't mean to.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

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“Reason and faith, the Archbishop said, do not of necessity cohere. Reason saith that water will not be transformed to wine. Faith has a contrary answer.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford

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“It’s lonely,” she replied. “But a good kind of lonely. The kind that makes you stronger. I lived a solitary life here for years. That is how I’ve emerged as I am now. All great faiths are born in the desert.”
― J.S. Latshaw, A Gallery of Mothers

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“I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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“Isn’t that what it means to be a scientist? To push the boundaries of the unknown? To bravely, actively explore the enormity of our universe ?”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

tags: brain, explore, middle-grade, science, science-fiction, scientist, the-great-unknown, universe

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