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Elizabeth
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Pg 23 As a Christian, running in the aftermath of Watergate and Vietnam, Carter liked to quote the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr: "The sad duty of politicians is to establish justice in a sinful world."AND
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As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little mental assumptions to crumble. Pg 18 Apparently, now and again adults take the time to sit down and contemplate what a disaster ...more "
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Literature, not only illuminated another's experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection. pg 51 LPMaybe Beckett's Pozzo is right. Maybe life is merely an "instant," too brief to consider. pg 85 LP
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“I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.”
― Speedboat
― Speedboat
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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