Abbey
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Politeness is fancy curtains in your front window. Kindness is the home-cooked meal on your dinner table.
“As historian Elizabeth Hayes Turner notes, “Memories represent power to people who are oppressed, for while they cannot control much of what occurs in their lives, they can own their own memories.”
― How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
― How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
“If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.”
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“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. —Anatole France, Nobel Laureate, 1921”
― West With Giraffes
― West With Giraffes
“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
― 1984
― 1984
“I know the average outfit in your wardrobe costs more than a semester of tuition at Princeton, but it makes you look like a community college during summertime: NO CLASS.”
― China Rich Girlfriend
― China Rich Girlfriend
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