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Elizabeth didn’t often envy her multiple-great ancestor, Charles I, who had lost his head at Whitehall, but back then, the monarch could say what he thought and do what he liked. Since Parliament got involved, one had been put very much in
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“On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence.”
― Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
― Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
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“The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.”
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