"To make my diary a little different I am going to call it a Thought Book ... I have thoughts that I never can use unlesss I write them down, for Aunt Miranda always says, Keep your thoughts to yourself."

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Source : Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM & NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA (Children’s Book Classics): Adventure Novels”, p.237, e-artnow

Kate Douglas Wiggin

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“Because a woman brought death a bright Maiden overcame it, and so the highest blessing in all of creation lies in the form of a woman, since God has become man in a sweet and blessed Virgin.”
“I think Taylor Swift is a really good artist. I feel like her personality shines through everything she does, her music, her fashion, her style. She won Album of the Year, and sheâ€™s a really good writer. Iâ€™m a song writer so I respect artists who write their own songs. She won Album of the Year when she was 18 or something like that so, I think sheâ€™s dope.”
“The sincerity with which you do things, that's what shapes your life.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“Our prime minister could embrace and forgive the people who killed our beloved sons and fathers, and so he should, but he could not, would not, apologise to the Aboriginal people for 200 years of murder and abuse. The battle against the Turks, he said in Gallipoli, was our history, our tradition. The war against the Aboriginals, he had already said at home, had happened long ago. The battle had made us; the war that won the continent was best forgotten”
“I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.”
“People shy away from it [MMA] because they think it's a brutal, brutal sport, and I've said, 'Guys, MMA is safer than football and boxing,... And people tell me they don't believe it. Am I not the most credible person to give you the answer to that?”
“Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we canâ€™t predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.”
“I realized a long time ago that instead of being jealous you can be inspired and appreciative. It carries more energy to you... That can be an awesome motivating force that can improve your life if you choose to be inspired and not jealous. One (being jealous) has no benefit whatsoever, the other is an incredible resource for creating momentum and improvement.”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 20, 2014.

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