"I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me."

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Anne Lamott

#Mother Quotes #Cousin Quotes #Uncles Quotes

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

Source : A Little Book in C Major ch. 2 (1916)
“I don't have to be a success. I can just try.”
“I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?”
“Brethren, do something; do something, do something! While societies and unions make constitutions, let us win souls. I pray you, be men of action all of you. Get to work and quit yourselves like men. Old Suvarov's idea of war is mine: `Forward and strike! No theory! Attack! Form a column! Charge bayonets! Plunge into the center of the enemy! Our one aim is to win souls; and this we are not to talk about, but do in the power of God!'”
“Moralityâ€”like velocityâ€”is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one's position in relation to them; never can one measure one's velocity or morality in terms of absolutes.”
“As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.”
“There is no light in earth or heaven but the cold light of stars; and the first watch of night is given to the red planet Mars.”
“Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.”

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