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There is a dark side to religious devotion that is too often ignored or denied. As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane—as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout—there may be no more potent force
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“We were brought up not to throw in the towel but to bite the bullets and fold towels neatly”
― Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
― Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
“Go to the sea or climb the mountain, and with the ruggedest and the savagest you will find likewise the fairest and the most delicate. The greatness and the minuteness of nature pass all understanding.”
― In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs
― In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs
“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
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“Ours is a tale of unremitting death”
― The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother): A Novel
― The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother): A Novel
“I had gotten used to the idea that people lived and you loved them, or didn’t, and then they died and you were bound to miss them, often even if you didn’t love them.”
― Lucky Us
― Lucky Us
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