"We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be good. And live."

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Source : Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.184, Penguin

Charlie LeDuff

#Trying Quotes #Born Quotes #Be Good Quotes

“She didn't protest as Hale slid his arm around her and pulled her to rest against his chest. It was somehow softer there than she remembered.”
“The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel.”
“Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.”

Source : John Boyne (2012). “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”, p.83, Random House
“When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing.”
“Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.”
“I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.”
“All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.”
“Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”

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