"Many a night I woke to the murmer of paper and knew (Dad) was up, sitting in the kitchen with frayed King James - oh, but he worked that book; he held to it like a rope ladder."

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Source : Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.103, Atlantic Monthly Press

Leif Enger

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“Children do better when they feel better.”

Source : Jane Nelsen, Steven Foster (2011). “Positive Discipline for Children with Special Needs: Raising and Teaching All Children to Become Resilient, Responsible, and Respectful”, p.47, Harmony
“My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and women are born free and equal in ability and brain. The injustice begins after birth.”
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls.”
“Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support. I just said, 'The hell with that. I'm out there.'”

Source : Interview with Gerald Early, www.motherjones.com. 1996.
“Our teaching may contain nothing impious, nothing diluted.”
“History is largely a record of human struggle to wrest the land from nature, because man relies for sustenance on the products of the soil. So direct, is the relationship between soil erosion, the productivity of the land, and the prosperity of people, that the history of mankind, to a considerable degree at least, may be interpreted in terms of the soil and what has happened to it as the result of human use.”
“Misbehave more beautifully; more often.”

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