Eileen Wilks Quotes
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In India there is a common saying that the way to Swaraj is through Mandalay.
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Conscience is a Jewish invention.
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It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.
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I have twenty countries in my memory and trail in my soul the colors of one hundred cities.
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I love shoes. I am a shoe fanatic. I have a special closet in my home just for my shoes.
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You never know, lightning could strike.
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Be transparent as wind, be as possible and relentless and dangerous, be what moves things forward without needing to leave a mark, be part of this collection of molecules that begins somewhere unknown and can't help but keep rising. Rising.Rising. Rising.
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A scar is a wound that has healed. We need to bring our wounds to Jesus, let Him heal them, and use our scars for Jesus. Our scars may be our greatest ministry.
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Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.
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My face is so pretty, you don’t see a scar, which proves I’m the king of the ring by far.
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A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.
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Now you see how you are, the wisdom mixed in with all the scars.
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Could Afghanistan become another Vietnam? Is the United States facing another stalemate on the other side of the world? Premature the questions may be, three weeks after the fighting began. Unreasonable they are not, given the scars scoured into the national psyche by defeat in Southeast Asia. For all the differences between the two conflicts, and there are many, echoes of Vietnam are unavoidable.
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I reached up with my finger and traced the scar over my eyebrow, remembering when that was the greatest hurt I'd ever known.
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And we feel things less than we did when we were kids, because we’ve grown so much scar tissue, or our senses have dulled.
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By...our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by allowing our movie and television screens to teach our children that the hero is one who masters the art of shooting and the technique of killing...we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes.
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My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad-I've never changed my mind about that.
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But not all scars showed, did they?
