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Melanie said:
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in 2025 I did the New Testament, one chapter per day with weekends off, and it was ok. Decided to do the whole bible in 2026 with YouVersion, and it was 4 or 5 chapters per day, pulled from different places, and Psalms and Proverbs are completely rep
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“All those years of remembering, carrying, and suffering over this person, and he probably hadn't thought about me at all since I'd moved away. I was willing to bet all my tormentors were also suffering from this kind of amnesia-- they didn't think about, care about, or remember what they'd done to me. The axe forgets; the tree remembers.”
― ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
― ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
“The most dangerous thing you can give evil is free time,”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“when fertility rates began collapsing in the late 1960s, another demographic transition was occurring, the result of a fundamental restructuring: People no longer put children at the center of their lives. Instead, they put themselves there.”
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“Disappointment comes from expectation,”
― The Dutch House
― The Dutch House
“We’ve been lunching on a lie since high school. The lie was this: those wishing to take away your freedom would come in the form of some massive monolithic, soulless government. We had to worry about faceless bureaucrats and faceless, armed mobs with mysterious insignias busting our doors in the dead of night, scooping us out of our beds, where we’re vanned to reeducation camps somewhere underground, a place with no internet, no cable, no sushi—not unlike certain parts of New Jersey. Which would be fine with me, because I hate sushi. But the “no internet thing” would be a problem. Because I love cat videos.”
― The Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help
― The Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help
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