Geraldine Brooks Quotes
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
Quotes to Explore
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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.
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I love design.
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I take the time to look at my videos after a fight to see not what I did right but what I did wrong, to learn from those mistakes.
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The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.
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To play vinyl onstage is not my thing. For me, vinyl is for home listening.
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If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion.
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Its okay I'm wearing really big knickers.
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In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid no tax, amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without a check, it is safe to say, this property will reach a sum exceeding $3 billion. I would suggest the taxation of all property equally.
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If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering over the dusty bodies; the randy father, the husband holding ice in his hand like a blessing, the mother bleeding into herself and the small imploding girl, i say if i should walk into that web, who will come flying after me, leaping tall buildings? you?
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Theres nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.
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Although we should not love our friends for the good that they do us, it is a sign that they do not love us much if they do not do us good when they have the power to do so.
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The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
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Deciding what gets my time is very simple: I ask, What am I passionate about?
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It is a foolish prince who entrusts the safety of his lands to hired men.
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When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.
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I'd rather go to school and do loads of music than anything else.
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I think one key part of doing more with less is to be more strategic, to realize what the objectives you're truly trying to accomplish are and then to drive with greater focus towards those objectives.
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There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
