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Jim Thomas
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At her door, Marvin knocked, and after what seemed like time enough for a new species to have developed from a single cell,
“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― A Short History of Progress
― A Short History of Progress
“I can’t put the profession ahead of the people it’s supposed to serve,” Susan said. “It would be like teachers who care more about education than students.”
― Ceremony
― Ceremony
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
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“If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”
― Profiles in Courage
― Profiles in Courage
“and you would never know they were gone, but losing a child left an emptiness so large it screamed to be filled with memories.”
― Chasing Darkness
― Chasing Darkness
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