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"In this unbelievable universe in which we live there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines reaching into infinity meet somewhere yonder."
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"My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.'I know that. It's on your face, son. Like a scar.'Eddie was fascinated by the idea of duty and ka as something that left a mark, something that might look like decoration to one eye and disfigurement to another. Outside, thunder cracked and lightning flashed."
"My decisions determine my destination long before I ever get there. And once I do get there, I suddenly realize this is not the destination I had in mind because what I had in mind was the fantasy that my denial had created verses the reality my choices crafted."
"God has specific plans and intentions for every man."
"One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy."
"I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination."
"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents' strife. . . . O, I am fortune's fool! . . . Then I defy you, stars."
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"None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free."
"We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave."
"You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea."
"Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together."
"Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on."
"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work."
"We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country."
"To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!' (Buck, 57)"
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