"Clear statement is argument."

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William Greenough Thayer Shedd

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“Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.”

Source : Frances Mayes (2014). “Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir”, p.245, Broadway Books
“Liberty and choice are the essential components that constitute human dignity.”
“We can now say with considerable confidence that the Bible is not a history of anyone's past.... The Bible's "Israel" is a literary fiction... Not only have Adam and Eve and the flood story passed over to mythology, but we can no longer talk about a time of the patriarchs. There never was a "United Monarchy" in history and it is meaningless to speak of pre-exilic prophets and their writings... The Bible deals with the origin traditions of a people who never existed as such”
“Take the time and do some small thing that will be noticed and remembered. Choose your objects carefully, and buy only what you love.”
“I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.”
“Nothing can be comparable to good health”
“We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.' We must remember, my friends, that we have been given a wonderful cause. The cause of freedom! And you and I must be those who will walk with heads held high. We will say, 'We used methods that can stand the harsh scrutiny of history.'”
“I'm a complete and utter busker.”

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