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Herbs: Medicinal, Magical, Marvelous!

by Deborah J. Martin (Goodreads Author)

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John’s Quotes

“We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.”
― Laura Riding Jackson, Anarchism Is Not Enough

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“For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

tags: encouragement, speech

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“Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!”
― Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

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“The problem with the ‘herd’ is that our voice is never ‘heard’.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: complacency, compliance, comply, conform, conforming, differences, different, expectations, heard, herd, independence, independent, laziness, lazy, mediocre, mediocrity, norms, opinion, placate, placating, problem, problematic, societal, society, surrender, surrendering, unique, uniqueness, voice

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“Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am -- not stuck in the middle, but hovering above the entire farcical spectrum, weeping as I behold my fellow man's devotion to political illusion and self-destruction.”
― Robert Higgs