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No one may know of it, but you never forget the thump--eh? A blow on the very heart. You remember it, you dream of it, you wake up at night and think of it--years after--and go hot and cold all over.
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“You might have been surrounded by other people – people telling you they cared, that they would protect you – but the truth is, really you were always on your own.”
― The Good Patient
― The Good Patient
“My father used to say the world turned wrong when we started separating ourselves from the wild, when we stopped being one with the rest of nature, and sat apart.”
― Once There Were Wolves
― Once There Were Wolves
“For as long as ours has been a nation of immigrants, we have been a nation that fears immigrants. Fear of the other is woven into the fabric of our American culture, and unscrupulous people in power have exploited that fear in pursuit of political advantage.”
― The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
― The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
“According to an old sailing proverb, below latitude 40° south there is no law, and below 50° south, no God.”
― The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
― The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
“... let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal." - President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (June 10th, 1963)”
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