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"Once again reading this book while at work. For some reason while I am there I need reinforcement for positive energy and pulling my team together!" — May 17, 2011 04:37pm
"Once again reading this book while at work. For some reason while I am there I need reinforcement for positive energy and pulling my team together!" — May 17, 2011 04:37pm
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"I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone."
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"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts."
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Eighteen books later, the Madaris family and their friends are still going strong. After working on an especially stressful and high-profile case, attorney De Angelo Di Meglio has decided to take some well deserved time off to devote to an equally...
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“Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”
― Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993
― Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993
“His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass
― Frederick Douglass
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
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