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The Secret Magdalene

by Ki Longfellow (Goodreads Author)

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Mammabird’s Quotes

“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”
― Alan Greenspan

tags: double-talk

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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail

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“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
― alice walker, The Color Purple

tags: color, god, purple, religion

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“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

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