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“To fire a bullet into the heart or brains of one's fellow man even a fellow man striving to do the same to you creates what might be called an unassimilable memory: a memory that floats on daily life the way an oil stain floats on rainwater. Stir the rain barrel, scatter the oil into countless drops, disperse it all you like, but it will not mix; and eventually the slick comes back, as loathsomely intact as it ever was.”
Source : Robert Charles Wilson (2009). “Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America”, p.176, Macmillan
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“The all-victorious Christ is like a great rock in a weary land, to whose shelter we may flee in every time of sorrow or trial, finding quiet refuge and peace in him.”
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“Mary is the Mysterious Book of Predestination to glory.”
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“I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.”
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“Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.”
Source : Anne Sexton, “Admonitions To A Special Person”
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“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
Source : "Inspire Her Feature: Olivia R. Colombo". Interview with Briana Berger, www.codergirls.org. June 19, 2017. 
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“I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!”
Source : "Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. November 24, 2008.
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“Life will be lengthened while growing, for Thought is the measure of life.”
Source : Charles Godfrey Leland (1872). “The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems”, p.11
