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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

by Mary Beard

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“I can't fall any father than the ground,' says the wrangler to the men who predict that he's going to be thrown. There's a limit to everything, he means; and when all is said and done, strength is simply not to be afraid.”
― Ricardo Güiraldes, Don Segundo Sombra

tags: falling, fear, strength

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“The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible, ‘In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.’ (Proverbs 3:6)”
― George Washington Carver

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“Under a black moon, the silent hills gaze on a scourged charcoal land; their hopes pinned on that lone seed that shall one day usher in the dawn.”
― Chaitali Sengupta, Cross-Stitched Words

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“In your absence now time is like an empty silence, where untamed memories scream with no threat of separation, in the cruel eternity of autumn.”
― Chaitali Sengupta, Cross-Stitched Words

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“Newspapers rely on keeping us in a constant state of anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the things that really matter to us. Why should I yield to their power and let them tell me what to think?”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

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