"...books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants."

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Source : Jon Krakauer (2012). “Eiger Dreams: Ventures among men and mountains”, p.48, Pan Macmillan

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“Jesus set us free to live the abundant life by being all that He has created us to be and accomplishing all that He has planned for us to do.”

Source : Sharon Jaynes (2011). “Listening to God Day by Day”, p.220, Harvest House Publishers
“Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.”
“There are times when, for many years, I've been irrelevant - and it was OK! I had my moment. No one is responsible for anyone else's dreams. I don't need a babysitter. I just needed to know that I could do this. I just think that my happiest time or my best time, upon reflection, is that I had the courage to do this.”

Source : "'Songs I Can Sing Ya': An Interview with Andy Kim and Kevin Drew". Interview With Evan Sawdey, www.popmatters.com. February 24, 2015.
“To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.”
“There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha”
“I know that you observe Christmas Day as you learned it at home. I do not observe it. However, as assistant director of this prison, I allow all the Catholics to observe freely and with some joy this day in this home.”

Source : "In Tito's Death Marches and Extermination Camps" by Joseph Hecimovic, John Prcela, (p. 163), 1962.
“There are so many of us, so many girls. The world wants us for our wombs or our bodies, or it doesn't want us at all.”
“World power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters.”

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