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“Our only hope to speak with kindness, to lead with patience, and to not threaten our children with homicide is to ensure our spiritual reserves are not bone-dry. Moms are the middle of the flow chart; the arrows of exertion flow constantly out from us, but when no arrows of strength, grace, and peace are flowing in, the whole mechanism is in danger. Goodness in equals goodness out.”
Source : Jen Hatmaker (2010). “Out of the Spin Cycle: Devotions to Lighten Your Mother Load”, p.36, Baker Books
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“If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.”
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“I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.”
Source : "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". Interview with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.
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“Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.”
Source : Richard Ford (2013). “Canada”, p.358, A&C Black
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“Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.”
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“There are a lot of movies made for nobody.”
Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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“Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.”
Source : James Holman (1840). “Travels in Madeira, Sierra Leone, Teneriffe, St. Jago, Cape Coast, Fernando Po, Princes Island, Etc. Etc”, p.10
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“Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike. Faces, though, can be quite different and a damn sight more interesting!”