Colleen Browne

Colleen’s Bookshelves

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current-affairs‎ (115)
biography‎ (105)

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educational‎ (82)
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historiography‎ (67)
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novels‎ (25)
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Colleen’s Quotes

“I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one’s self depends upon one’s mastery of the language,”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

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“Do fewer but better things. Because the person who tries to achieve everything ultimately accomplishes nothing. Focus. Focus. Focus. Focus.”
― Robin Sharma

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“he makes my heart flutter like a clean sheet on a long line.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

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“A person’s troubles are not measured by the size of those troubles, but by how much they weigh on the individual carrying them.”
― Jessica George, Maame

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“Notice that all those who have made a deep impression on the world, and have shone most brightly have been men who lived in a dark day.”
― Dwight L. Moody, The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

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More of Colleen’s quotes…

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