"Access to a school library results in more reading."

-- Stephen D. Krashen

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“I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away.”
“Merrily, merrily, listen to me, Flitting and flying from tree to tree. Nothing fear I, by land or sea, For God in Heaven is watching me.”

Source : Maud Lindsay (2010). “Mother Stories”, p.122, Heart of Dixie Publishing
“I've always been a missionary and what people don't know is that I've always taken some strategic and eyebrow-raising steps.”
“For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.”
“Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds.”
“It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil ... which asserts that because forms of evil have always existed in society, therefore they must always exist.”

Source : Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.215, Library of Alexandria
“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.”

Source : Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.169, Simon and Schuster
“In a fire, you have to be thoughtful; you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.”

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