"I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach."

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Source : Louise Fitzhugh (2009). “Harriet the Spy”, p.122, Yearling

Louise Fitzhugh

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“We're professional athletes. People know who we are, and if there's some way we can help with a friend or someone in need, that's a responsibility we have. I really strongly believe that.”
“In each of us, two natures are at war â€“ the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose â€“ what we want most to be we are.”
“We live in a world of outrageous pain. The only response to outrageous pain is outrageous love.”

Source : "On Evolutionary Love, Part 1" by Marc Gafni, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2015.
“We know that there were so many Japanese American soldiers in World War II who were fighting in Europe despite the fact that their families, their parents were back home in American prison camps. It's savagely ironic that between themselves and the African-American soldiers, who were also segregated and didn't see the fruition of the work the culminated in the Civil Rights Act until the '60s, that these American heroes and their stories are not well known; and the fact that the 442nd/100th became the most decorated unit in U.S. history.”
“Missionary life is simply a chance to die.”
“I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.”

Source : Eric Temple Bell (1988). “Mathematics, queen and servant of science”, Tempus Books
“I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.”
“It's important for people in the Church to realize that the way they talk and think about the Bible isn't the way Bible scholars talk and think about it - and I'm including "Bible-believing" scholars there. There is a wide gap between the work of biblical scholars, whose business it is to read the text of the Bible in its own worldview context, and what you hear in church.”

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