"Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption."

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Francine Rivers

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“No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that â€˜a gentleman does not cheatâ€™, than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers.”
“I'm a fan of the European style, naturalistic thriller.”

Source : "Director George Ratliff Interview SALVATION BOULEVARD". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 13, 2011.
“You can talk any redneck into a challenge. Thatâ€™s why so many rednecks die in strange ways.”
“Many of those on the right distrust the Fed and want to eliminate its power in the belief that the private economy, including the private banks, will be much more efficient, productive and even democratic if they are left to themselves: in other words, the criticism of the Fed really reflects a desire to cripple the government in the service of increasing the power and authority of the market.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“The key is to really have tremendously high expectations and to teach kids how to be self sufficient and confident and give them the skills that they need to succeed.”

Source : Source: www.afb.org
“The world was full of beauty. She wanted to grab hold of it and take it down into her bones. Yet always it seemed beyond her grasp. Sometimes only by a little, like now. The thinnest membrane. Usually, though, by miles. She couldnâ€™t expect to be that kind of happy all the time. She knew that. But sometimes you could. Sometimes you should be allowed a tiny bit of joy that should stay with you for more than five minutes. That wasnâ€™t too much to ask. To have a moment like this, and be able to hold on to it. To cross that membrane, and feel alive.”
“Sadly, [Pablo Escobar] ended up throwing away the one opportunity he had. I naively thought, as a son and as many other Colombians, that he would take this opportunity to make amends with the country.”
“you have to be very careful when you give to others that you don't tell them how great you are rather than how much you value them.”

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