The Choice
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Memory is sacred ground. But it’s haunted too. It’s the place where my rage and guilt and grief go circling like hungry birds scavenging the same old bones.


“A gramme is always better than a damn.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World

“While the Hindu elaborates his argument, the Moslem sharpens his sword. Between these two races and creeds…the gulf is impassable.”
― Churchill by Himself: In His Own Words
― Churchill by Himself: In His Own Words

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure…We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone.”
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“They have great reason to love their country and to fear the white man's yoke, for once harnessed to the plow, their life would no longer be a poem.”
― Sailing alone around the world: A voyage beyond imagination
― Sailing alone around the world: A voyage beyond imagination
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