loss – the closed door‚ we see only a closed door with the resultant frustration and unhappiness‚ but if we could only move our sight and attention away from the closed door‚ we might be surprised to discover a row of openning new doors. To sum up‚ I just want to say: Do not try to look at your back‚ look at the things stand in front of you and shoot your bolt to strike while the iron is hot. That is the necessary thing you must do after the
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achievement. You are here to enrich the world‚ and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." Woodrow Wilson "There’s nothing really difficult if you only begin - some people contemplate a task until it looms so big‚ it seems impossible‚ but I just begin and it gets done somehow. There would be no coral islands if the first bug sat down and began to wonder how the job was to be done." John Shaw Billings (1838-1913) “Care for your health. Don’t be the richest person in the cemetery.” Robin Sharma
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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 the ragged hedge on the opposite side the boughs of the elm trees swayed just perceptibly in the breeze‚ and their leaves stirred faintly in dense masses like women’s hair. Surely somewhere nearby‚ but out of sight‚ there must be a stream with green pools where dace were swimming? It was in the sun‚ they in the shade. It
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I have read your book Backlash many times‚ and each time it gets me! The first time I read it‚ it changed me in so many ways from judging‚ knowing your real friends‚ and learning to not let the little things bother me. They are all great ways to change into a better person. In Backlash you see so many bad things happen to Lara and then at the end it’s better! This book has a very good lesson and it really shows at the end. I’ve changed so much from this book! The main thing I’ve changed from
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coming home wasn’t any easier and caused his wit to soon leave him in a drunken and abusive state. Later Louie redeems himself and his cleverness soon returns to him. In Louie’s later years Pete recognizes that his brother’s cleverness still served him just as well by telling a few onlookers‚ “‘Why the h*** are you trying to help him?’” (392). After reading the biography of Louie Zamperini’s life by Laura Hillenbrand‚ it’s obvious Louie’s ingenuity carried him through many obstacles. His cleverness
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He certainly had it on his mind. “Listen” he said “If you was a fish‚ Mother Nature’d take care of you‚ wouldn’t she? Right? You don’t think them fish just die when it gets to be winter‚ do ya?” “No‚ but—“ “You’re goddam right they don’t‚” Horwitz said‚ and then drove off like a bat out of hell. pg. 109 – The conversation between Holden and the Taxi driver – This quote is important because it is one of the first persons to tell Holden what he is doing
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(Return to CO.Quaker.org Home Page) 2013-07-09T16:58:18#BeginEditable "Heading" Just and Unjust War2013-07-09T16:58:18#EndEditable 2013-07-09T16:58:18#BeginEditable "body" by Howard ZinnReprinted (with permission of the author) from the book Declarations of Independence‚ (...also found in The Zinn Reader‚ and Howard Zinn on War) I enlisted in the Army Air Corps in World War II and was an eager bombardier‚ determined to do everything I could to help defeat fascism. Yet‚ at the end of the war‚ when
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JUST ONE WISH Chapter 1 I would have expected to see this sort of line if‚ say‚ Elvis had returned from the dead to give a concert. Or if some eccentric yet ultra-cool billionaire was blessing the lives of deserving teens by handing out free sports cars. But I hadn‟t expected to see this many people lined up in the dark waiting for the Day-After-Thanksgiving sale at Toys “R” Us. Really‚ whatever happened to good oldfashioned procrastination? Apparently every resident of Henderson‚ Nevada‚ had
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(SIP-A) Najmah was forced to become a boy‚ because if she didn’t‚ she surely would’ve been whipped and beaten. (STEWE-1) This is shown when Najmah says “Just seconds after Khalida speaks‚ a black-turbaned talib comes along with a bamboo stave and whacks at the legs of the poor women begging along the road”(88). This shows how horribly women are treated‚ and the reason for her becoming a boy. (STEWE-2) She
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is crying] Fiona: Will‚ am I a bad mother? Will: No. No‚ you’re not a bad mother. You’re just a barking lunatic. ________________________________________ [Fiona is crying] Fiona: I mean‚ he’s a special – very‚ very special boy and he’s got a special soul‚ and I’ve wounded it. Will: Oh‚ please‚ just shut up. You’re wounding my soul. ________________________________________ Christine: Oh‚ no... it’s just I thought you had hidden depths. Will: No‚ no‚ you’ve always had that wrong about me. I
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