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"I guess reading this devotional is a good way of beating my reading challenge, at least 10% of it! :)" — Feb 16, 2014 07:36PM
"I guess reading this devotional is a good way of beating my reading challenge, at least 10% of it! :)" — Feb 16, 2014 07:36PM
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""Far over the misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To find our long-forgotten gold." Bucket list 2016 - slay the Tolkien classics The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings" — Jan 02, 2016 04:08AM
""Far over the misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To find our long-forgotten gold." Bucket list 2016 - slay the Tolkien classics The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings" — Jan 02, 2016 04:08AM
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"...for even on an anthropological plane, Filipinos are a tribal people, and tribes communicate by sounds better than by symbols. They tell better stories and sing sweeter ballades (story-telling songs). Tribes don't do as well writing letters, and prefer watching TV to reading" — Oct 25, 2015 08:20PM
"...for even on an anthropological plane, Filipinos are a tribal people, and tribes communicate by sounds better than by symbols. They tell better stories and sing sweeter ballades (story-telling songs). Tribes don't do as well writing letters, and prefer watching TV to reading" — Oct 25, 2015 08:20PM
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
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“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
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“Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents.”
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“The adventure of life is to learn.
The purpose of life is to grow.
The nature of life is to change.
The challenge of life is to overcome.
The essence of life is to care.
The opportunity of like is to serve.
The secret of life is to dare.
The spice of life is to befriend.
The beauty of life is to give.”
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The purpose of life is to grow.
The nature of life is to change.
The challenge of life is to overcome.
The essence of life is to care.
The opportunity of like is to serve.
The secret of life is to dare.
The spice of life is to befriend.
The beauty of life is to give.”
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