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“The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition.
But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.”
― Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.”
― Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
“We never love anyone. Not really. We only love our idea of another person. It is some conception of our own that we love. We love ourselves, in fact.”
― Cork
― Cork
“There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.”
― The End of Nature
― The End of Nature
“I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.”
― The Accidental Tourist
― The Accidental Tourist
“And yet, old friend, books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when we are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive.”
― The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
― The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
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