"A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes."

-- Edward Abbey

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“My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind”
“Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.”

Source : Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.16, Penguin
“I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt A billion lovers with their cameras Snap to look and in my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt”
“The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.”
“So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.”
“If every person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you will try to act a little kinder than is necessary - the world really would be a better place. And if you do this, if you act just a little kinder than is necessary, someone else, somewhere, someday, may recognize in you, in every single one of you, the face of God.”
“Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions rather than on those vast forces not of man's making that shape and channel the nature and direction of life.”
“I used to be so twig skinny that I couldn't eat enough, because I was just naturally skinny. Until I went to China.”

Source : "I'm A Runner: Lisa Ling". Interview with Sarah Lorge Butler, www.runnersworld.com. June 1, 2005.

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