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“My dead and wounded were nearly as great in number as those still on duty. They literally covered the ground. The blood stood in puddles in some places on the rocks; the ground was soaked with the blood of as brave men as ever fell on the red field of battle.”
Source : Frank Haskell, Franklin Aretas Haskell, William C. Oates (1992). “Gettysburg: Two Eyewitness Accounts”, Bantam Books
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“All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.”
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“We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems.”
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“When people have been traumatized, they are stuck in paralysis-the immobility reaction or abrupt explosions of rage.”
Source : Peter A. Levine (2008). “Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body”, p.55, Sounds True
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“It makes life so much easier when you can just say 'I'm human' at the end of the day."”
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“Instead of seeing all of this as God's extraordinary grace, we come to expect the comfort and joys that God gives us as the baseline, the measure of what we believe to be our due. When our comfort level drops below our expectations, we are shocked and angered, and even foolishly express our outrage to God Himself.”
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“I'm having too much fun today to worry about tomorrow.”
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“Programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little hole behind the flippers.”
Source : "Darwin as the Pinball Wizard: Talking Probability with Robert Marks". Interview with Robert Crowther of the pro-intelligent design Discovery Institute, March 3, 2010.
