"I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives."

-- Jane Austen

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“We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.”
“Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.”

Source : Christine Feehan (2005). “Night Game”, p.296, Penguin
“Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.”

Source : Orson Scott Card (2009). “Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus”, p.394, Macmillan
“I'm a hero wid coward's legs, I'm a hero from the waist up.”
“Yes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government. The test of those values is the Bible. Politicians who do not use the bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office.”

Source : "Watch the Right: The Amazing Rise of Beverly LaHaye" by Connie Page (Ms. magazine), February 1987.
“I am a teacher... The life I lead is the most agreeable I can imagine. [In the] classroom ... there await me a group of intelligent and curious young ... [people] who read the books assigned them with a sense of adventure and discovery, discuss them with zest, and listen appreciatively to explications I may offer. What makes the process most satisfying is the conviction that ... education is mankind's most important enterprise.”
“In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar.”
“We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God.”

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