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“Praying is talking to God. Meditating is listening.”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

“The name Hitler does not offend a black South African because Hitler is not the worst thing a black South African can imagine. Every country thinks their history is the most important, and that’s especially true in the West. But if black South Africans could go back in time and kill one person, Cecil Rhodes would come up before Hitler. If people in the Congo could go back in time and kill one person, Belgium’s King Leopold would come way before Hitler. If Native Americans could go back in time and kill one person, it would probably be Christopher Columbus or Andrew Jackson. I”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“It is your fear that will prevent you from becoming who you are meant to be.”
― William Andrews, Daughters of the Dragon

“They must often change, who would be constant in wisdom.”
― William Andrews, The Dragon Queen