"Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say that I had a few extraordinary English teachers in high school whom I still credit for their guidance."

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Source : "Washington Post Magazine: Real Life". Online chat, www.washingtonpost.com. July 14, 2008.

Julia Glass

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“If the unborn is a human person, no justification for abortion is adequate.”
“Pray for divine guidance in your goal setting”
“We never know who they are that God will draw, and have nothing to do with it. Our duty is to invite all, and leave it to God to choose the vessels of mercy.”
“The Jews will become socialist colonisers with strong fists and sharp teeth, a strong national group within the Soviet family of nations.”

Source : "Inside the Middle East" by Dilip Hiro, (p. 232), 1982.
“We have dinner every single night, Monday through Friday, with our children. We sit down around 6 or 6:30 and it's a family dinner - it's time to check in, just to be around each other.”
“I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings.”
“The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.”
“There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.”

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