"We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad things...the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative."

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Source : James Redfield (1993). “The celestine prophecy: an adventure”, Atticus Press & Company (AL)

James Redfield

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“A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.”

Source : Citizens United, Appellant v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310, 2010.
“A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.”
“It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.”
“At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory.”
“The smell of loving is a difficult one to describe, but if you think of the times when someone has held you close and made you safe, you will remember how it smells just as well as I do.”
“Now, it's common knowledge that most towns of a certain size have a witch, if only to eat misbehaving children and the occasional puppy who wanders into her yard.”

Source : "Fictional character: Edward Bloom". Big Fish, 2003.
“Historically, the argument is we stole the country from the Indians. America stole the labor of African Americans for over 200 years under slavery. America took half of Mexico by force in the Mexican War. American foreign policy, the progressives say it's based on theft. Why? Because look, America is very active in the Middle East. Why? The Middle East has oil. Notice that America doesn't get involved in Haiti or Rwanda because they don't have any oil.”
“Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.”

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