"My son is the best thing that ever happened to me. And through me - to a lot of people."

-- Maya Angelou

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“To enable consensus politics to develop we need to empower people where they live. This means devolving financial resources and political power down to the community level. One of the greatest blocks to movement is fear. This fear can only be removed when people feel their voices are being heard by government and when they have a say in their own lives and communities.”

Source : Mairead Corrigan Maguire (2010). “The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland”, p.63, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to grasp it and exhaust it, you may take some beautiful pictures, but not a photographic oeuvre.”
“Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.”
“H2O it's a complicated, three-dimensional, charged object. And one can pack these things in many different ways, a little like playing the child's game of jacks, where those complicated little objects can be thrown together in all different ways.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.”
“Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year.”
“Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.”

Source : The Theory of the Leisure Class ch. 4 (1899) See Rae 1
“I had from childhood not only the experience of love and truth common to all family life, but the idea of them embodied in the person of Jesus, a picture always present to our imagination as well as our feelings.”

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