"As I say the words, I realize how true they are. And maybe that's the trick to getting through it, through life: realizing that everybody, including ourselves, is lugging around some kind of screwed-up baggage. Maybe we are put here to help each other carry the loads."

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Source : Lisa Ann Sandell (2011). “A Map of the Known World”, p.232, Scholastic Inc.

Lisa Ann Sandell

#Life Quotes #Baggage Quotes #Helping Quotes

“The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last must be substituted; and where this becomes the ordinary instrument of government there is an end to liberty!”
“One, I am skeptical of the effectiveness of nutritional supplements.”
“PoincarÃ© was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of classical logic; something more than logic, he believed, makes mathematics what it is.”
“I think for Lev [Grossman], C. S. Lewis was a huge inspiration from his childhood. I know that Brideshead Revisited is a book that he's incredibly found of and he took certain structural influences from that book that he brought into The Magicians.”

Source : "Why Eliot on The Magicians Is the Fantasy Character We've All Been Waiting For". Interview with Kelsie Gibson, www.popsugar.com. February 9, 2016.
“...these are the problems of the modern U.S. combat soldier, the constant worry about overstepping the mark and an American media that delights in trying to knock us down. Which we have done nothing to deserve. Except, perhaps, love our country and everything it stands for.”
“The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture â€œThis is a pipeâ€, I'd have been lying!”
“The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.”

Source : "From Freedom to Slavery : The Rebirth of Tyranny in America". Book by Gerry Spence, 1996.
“'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.”

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