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    Birdsong Quotes

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    -No one in England knows what this is like. If they could see the way these men live they would not believe their eyes. This is not a war‚ this is an exploration of how far men can be degraded. -You see their faces and think they will take no more‚ that something in them will say‚ enough‚ no one can do this. -Where the telegrams would be delivered‚ the houses where the blinds would be drawn‚ where low mans would come in the afternoon behind closed doors…to pup up only granite slabs instead of living

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    Montross Quotes

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    Montross describes the first day‚ when she gets the bone box. She thinks while she is walking with the box; “This used to be a person. I am carrying parts of a person in this box‚ and no one knows it. On the street‚ girls compliment one another’s shoes‚ and a man in his twenties sings Dylan n the curb for quarters.” (9) Montross has begun her journey to becoming a doctor. She first needs to learn about all the different bones in the body. I feel that as I read this passage about the bone box and

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    Guyland Quotes

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    Guyland: The perilous world where boys become men. Michael Loebig 11/28/11 Guyland can be defined as the world in which young men live (Kimmel 2008‚ pg. 4). It’s a stage these young men go through from the time they hit adolescence to the time they enter manhood (from about 15 to 26). It’s a world where guys just act as guys‚ untouched by the adult life of parents‚ jobs‚ kids‚ girlfriends‚ etc. Kimmel (2008) describes it as a “Peter-Pan mindset”‚ where these kids live in a realm of fun and

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    The Giver Quotes

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    Anthony J. D’Angelo once said‚ “Without a sense of caring‚ there can be no sense of community.” Lois Lowry shows us that the theme of The Giver is that we need to need to care for one another. In chapter 17 page 16 the text states‚ “Only Asher and Fiona remained. ‘What’s wrong‚ Jonas? It was only a game‚’ Fiona said. ‘You ruined it‚’ Asher said in an irritated voice. ‘Don’t play it anymore‚” Jonas pleaded. ‘I’m the one who’s training for Assistant Recreation Director‚’ Asher pointed out angrily

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    Hermione Quotes

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    Though intelligence is Hermione’s main source of agency‚ in the beginning of the series it actually contains her. As Heilman notes in her essay‚ “research on boys’ school culture suggests that bookishness and academic achievement are considered feminine” (224). Ruthann Mayes-Elma also suggests that “girls are to take their studies seriously and be good at them‚ while boys are to be adventurous and not so good in school” (86). At this point in the story‚ Hermione fulfills this stereotypical nerd

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    Jane Eyre Quotes

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    Quote 1: “I reflected. Poverty looks grim to grown people; still more so to children: they have not much idea of industrious‚ working‚ respectable poverty; they think of the word only as connected with ragged clothes‚ scanty food‚ fireless grates‚ rude manners‚ and debasing vices: poverty for me was synonymous with degradation.” (pg. 18) This quote occurs when Jane learns from Mrs. Reed that her parents lived in poverty. Mrs. Reed asks if Jane would like to go live with her parents instead of in

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    Success Quotes

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    "The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore." -Dale Carnegie 1. "Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand." -- Bruce Barton 2. "Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple‚ really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure

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    The Meaning of a Quote

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    “When one door of happiness closes‚ another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” Helen Keller Body: As we have known‚ most people are too attached to the past‚ to what they are familiar with. Therefore‚ they will miss opportunities that stand right in front of them. Doors may close‚ but there are always other unlimited numbers of doors – new opportunities to get new happiness. Alexander Graham Bell also used to say that:

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    Quotes on 1984

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    Golden country “Presumably she could be trusted to find a safe place. In general you could not assume that you were much safer in the country than in London. There were no telescreens‚ of course‚ but there was always the danger of concealed microphones by which your voice might be picked up and recognized; besides‚ it was not easy to make a journey by yourself without attracting attention” An old‚ close-bitten pasture‚ with a footpath wandering across it and a molehill here and there. In

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    Heath Quotes

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    The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.  ~G.K. Chesterton There’s lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it.  ~Josh Billings The greatest wealth is health.  ~Virgil I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life‚ provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.  ~Samuel Butler‚ The

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