Naomi

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Naomi’s Quotes

“A good death is a death in solidarity with others. To prepare ourselves for a good death, we must develop or deepen this sense of solidarity.”
― Henri Nouwen

tags: death, dying

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“The price of liberty is labor as well as vigilance.”
― Carl Scovel, Never Far from Home: Stories from the Radio Pulpit

tags: democracy, liberty, vigilance

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“Hospitality is the practice of God's welcome by reaching across difference to participate in God's actions bringing justice and healing to our world in crisis.”
― Letty M. Russell

tags: christianity, feminist, hospitality, justhospitality

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“Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.”
― P. T. Barnum, The Humbugs of the World

tags: advertising, increase, manure, quips

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“My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

tags: beach, endings, evening, reverence, wonder

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