"It's a shame you know," he called over his shoulder. "What's a shame?" Duncan asked. "That I didn't capture her first." Duncan smiled. "Nay, Edmond, it was a blessing. God's truth, I would have taken her from you."

-- Julie Garwood

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“But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.”
“How strange that excision â€“ female circumcision, with several languages using the same term for both kinds of mutilation â€“ of little girls should revolt the westerner but excite no disapproval when it is performed on little boys. Consensus on the point seems absolute. But ask your interlocutor to think about the validity of this surgical procedure, which consists of removing a healthy part of a nonconsenting childâ€™s body on nonmedical grounds â€“ the legal definition ofâ€¦ mutilation.”
“Being able to travel the world is pretty cool. There are places that I've always wanted to go to but being able to go there as somebody who's a musician and is recognised as one is cool.”
“I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.”
“Let us live without hate among those who hate”
“Religion is the answer to that cry of Reason which nothing can silence, that aspiration of the soul which no created thing can meet, that want of the heart which all creation cannot supply.”

Source : Isaac Thomas HECKER (1857). “Aspirations of nature”, p.24
“Good code is its own best documentation.”
“Itâ€™s up to the captain. I certainly feel my golf is worthy of playing in the Ryder Cup. But Iâ€™m not sure Iâ€™m on the radar screen of Paul McGinley.”

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