"No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning."

-- Joseph Addison

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“I wanted to be rid of him," he says. He raises my chin with his thumb. "But not if it meant being rid of you. I climbed in beside you, and you put your head in my lap. You can't think I would have left you like that." "Look what it got you," I say. "Tea in bed and you here in front of me," he says. "It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.”
“The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.”
“Malaria kills and its main victims are children and women. We can stop this scourge so people can live with dignity and go to work and school.”
“There are parts of Texas where a fly lives 10,000 years and a man can't die soon enough.”
“It was worthwhile to come here only to see why Europe is rottening, why all this people - good for nothing - are the cause of all the Hitlers and Mussolinis.”
“Nakamura Tempu Sensei viewed the mind as a segment of the body that could not be seen and the body as the element of the mind that was observable. He also likened the mind and body to a stream, with the mind as the source flowing down to the body. Whatever we drop in the stream will be carried down by the current. In like manner, our thoughts will influence the body and our well being.”
“Society and personality live in a continuing reciprocal relation with each other. The search for personal change without efforts to change the institutions within which we live and grow will, therefore, be met with only limited reward.”
“No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.”

Source : Joy Davidman (1985). “Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments”, p.120, Westminster John Knox Press

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