"I couldn't help but see; I wasn't blind. I couldn't help but admire; I wasn't dead"

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Source : Lori Handeland (2014). “Rising Moon”, p.29, Lori Handeland

Lori Handeland

#Helping Quotes #Blind Quotes #Admire Quotes

“I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.”
“Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested.”

Source : John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman
“The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work closely together, share the same set of values and, above all, face a crisis situation that puts everyone under intense stress”
“If you are a member of the media, you belong to the public. You've made that Faustian bargain with your public. Take me â€“ all of me â€“ I'm yours.”
“I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I say, 'Wow. Thank you, God, for giving me this gift. And thank you for helping me to keep going.'”
“To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university.”
“The great Mediator asks for our repentanceÂ notÂ because we must â€˜repayâ€™ him in exchange for his paying our debt to justice, but because repentance initiates a developmental process that, with the Saviorâ€™s help, leads us along the path to a saintly character”
“But, sir, the great cause of complaint now is the slavery question, and the questions growing out of it. If there is any other cause of complaint which has been influential in any quarter, to bring about the crisis which is now upon us; if any State or any people have made the troubles growing out of this question, a pretext for agitation instead of a cause of honest complaint, Virginia can have no sympathy whatever, in any such feeling, in any such policy, in any such attempt. It is the slavery question. Is it not so?...”

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