“You weren’t there, you didn’t see,” he said. “There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”
“It don’t take no nerve to do somepin when there ain’t nothin’ else you can do. Well, thanks. We’ll drag on.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“Never do something that a thousand other people are doing.”
― The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
― The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
“Only in self-sacrifice can man live fully as man, Catholic teaching states. Some people sacrifice for an idea, but really, John Paul argues, we give up our lives only for other people—or for God. And that true sacrifice requires love, which in turn requires true human contact. Community bonds make that love real. And so these two popes show us that true inclusion of the poor—by living in community with them—is the only way to carry out our duty to serve the poor.”
― Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse
― Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse
“Whereas, if the Devil offer unto a good man all the pleasures, and profits, and honors of the world, he will not sin for the sake thereof, and wrong his own soul. ‘No,’ he says to the Devil.”
― The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege
― The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege
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