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“I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.”
Source : Rebecca Stead (2010). “When You Reach Me/First Light”, p.134, Wendy Lamb Books
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“God, provide me with enough sustenance that my family is taken care of, that neither I remain hungry, nor does my guest go unfed.”
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“Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own character and that of the people becomes worse.”
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“Hold prayer in high esteem. It is the foundation of all the virtues, and the source of all grace needed to sanctify ourselves and to discharge the duties of our employment.”
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“There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.”
Source : "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger. Chapter: "The Spirit of the Age", p. 14, 1954.
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“At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.”
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“Being on Oprah? You realize that there are a couple of types of audience members. There are like the cult people in the audience who are just crying before she gets on. And then there are the people who are playing it cool. I definitely was somewhere in the middle.”
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“Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned.”
