"When you think about the current present value of the fossil fuel reserves that are on the books, the current fossil fuel companies, the last time that that much wealth was at stake was when the South fought the Civil War,"

-- Chris Hayes

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“The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.”
“All my closest friends came to me through poetry. My wife, too! Other than my family, poetry is the gravitational force of my life.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Grace has a way of sneaking up on you like that. When you least deserve it.”

Source : Cathleen Falsani (2008). “Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace”, p.15, Harper Collins
“He thinks of that ocean house and wishes he were back in his former life or that one could take one moment and remain inside it like an egg inside its shell, instead of constantly being hurried into the future by good luck or bad.”
“It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.”
“This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.”
“Real strength isnâ€™t control. Itâ€™s knowing when to let go.”
“In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then. In her life she is both celebrant and proof of women's capacity and will to survive, to become, to act, to change self and society. And each year she is stronger and there are more of her.”

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