"The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a creator second only to God."

-- Helen Hunt Jackson

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“That's all that death is ... Just a going away into another country ... Only the separation is harder to bear because there can be no letters to bridge the silence.”

Source : Annie Fellows Johnston (1912). “Mary Ware's Promised Land”, p.133, Pelican Publishing
“I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II. After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II? Hitler and Mussolini jumped in on the side of Francisco Franco and his Spanish nationalists, sent them vast amounts of military aid, airplanes, tanks - and Mussolini sent 80,000 ground troops as well - because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“I am tired of hustling.”
“I guess what I'm trying to say is that you can't live somebody else's life for them. They have to make their own choices, and sometimes all we can do is learn to live with them.”

Source : Jaimal Yogis (2009). “Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea”, p.234, Simon and Schuster
“Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.”
“As long as her hands can move a little bit and reach out to those who come to Her, Amma will continue giving darshan.”
“She eventually forgave him, because she understood him.”
“Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.”

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