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“There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence, that something is wrong. You don't know - can't know - that it is the first of a series of "wrongful" events that will culminate in the utter devastation of your life as you have known it.”
Source : "A Widow’s Story" by Joyce Carol Oates, www.newyorker.com. December 13, 2010. 
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“It is not faith in Christ that saves you (though faith is the instrument) - it is Christ's blood and merits.”
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“If we wait for the governments, it'll be too little, too late; if we act as individuals, it'll be too little; but if we act as communities, it might just be enough, just in time.”
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“You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.”
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“No price is too great to pay for inner peace.”
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“I watch her as she leaves. Everything about her is fluid as a river. Her messy hair, her xylophone voice, the strokes of her paintbrush. Even her camouflage army jacket hangs loose, flowing like ribbons.”
Source : Lisa Ann Sandell (2011). “A Map of the Known World”, p.217, Scholastic Inc.
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“We need to roll back precarious employment models. Temporary and limited contracts were initially seen as a way of introducing more flexibility so as to bridge periods of need in certain phases of production. Some employers have taken advantage of the model to push down wages. In general, we must strive for equal pay for equal work.”
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“Home has always been one of the most important things. If I don't feel at home in my space, then I feel really unmoored.”
Source : "See How Designer Nate Berkus Renovated His 19th-Century New York City Duplex" by Samuel Cochran, www.architecturaldigest.com. November 2012.
