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“Other people don't know what you've gone through. And everybody has a story that you probably don't know.”
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“This land, although not my native land, Will be remembered forever. And the sea's lightly iced, Unsalty water. The sand on the bottom is whiter than chalk, The air is heady, like wine, And the rosy body of the pines Is naked in the sunset hour. And the sunset itself on such waves of ether That I just can't comprehend Whether it is the end of the day, the end of the world, Or the mystery of mysteries in me again.”
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“Understanding strengths and weaknesses is very essential in setting forth a clean administration and for sustainable and lasting solutions.”
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“Birds fascinated her. How did they do that, seeming to fly with one mind, each of them able to anticipate what the others would do?”
Source : Suzanne Weyn (2012). “The Bar Code Rebellion”, p.17, Scholastic Inc.
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“Here you had John McCain and Lindsey Graham in a very principled way standing up and defending Barack Obama. You had people like Gene Robinson and a lot of other liberals, who said, and this I personally agree with, however flawed Rand Paul was as a messenger, we need a debate about this. The administration has not been forthcoming enough about its drone policy.”
Source : "Week In Politics: Unemployment, Rand Paul's Filibuster". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 8, 2013.
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“In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers.”
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“So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”
Source : Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.48, Simon and Schuster
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“What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?”