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“Faith allows us to enter peacefully into the dark night which faces every one of us at one time or another.”
Source : Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Mary Achterhoff (1992). “Grace in every season: through the year with Catherine Doherty : daily reflections”, Servant Pubns
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“I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother.”
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“The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.”
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“He who outrages benevolence is called a ruffian: he who outrages righteousness is called a villain. I have heard of the cutting off of the villain Chow, but I have not heard of the putting of a ruler to death.”
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“Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is never not heard. / It can wait centuries if it has to.”
Source : Alexis De Veaux (1980). “Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday”, HarperCollins Publishers
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“If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others!”
Source : S. R. Ranganathan (2006). “The Five Laws of Library Science”, Ess Ess Publications
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“There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right." One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.”
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“Give me a black man, a white woman, a giraffe, a zebra anything but another white man! That last one f***ed up my roof!”
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“Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.”
Source : Martin Cruz Smith (2013). “Wolves Eat Dogs”, p.90, Simon and Schuster
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“It's not time to worry yet”
