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"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."
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"If you appreciate, you will appreciate."
"When you adopt the habit of focusing on the things in your life that some people would love to have or experience, you would develop the spirit of gratitude, which would then guarantee a continuous presence of happiness in your mind."
"You will find joy in everyday life with a heart of thankfulness."
"If you want to get more, appreciate and express heartfelt gratitude for what you have."
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"The twins were too young to know that these were only history's henchmen. Sent to square the books and collect the dues from those who broke its laws. Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear-civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women, power's fear of powerlessness. Man's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify."
"They sensed somehow that she lived in the prenumbral shadows between two worlds, just beyond the grasp of their power. That a woman that they had already damned, now had little left to lose, and could therefore be dangerous. So on the days that the radio played Ammu's songs, people avoided her, making little loops around her, because everybody agreed that it was best to just Let Her Be."
"Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness of those who have lost, but also by the gratitude of those who have (or THINK they have) gained."
"Trees raised their naked, mottled branches to the sky like mourners stilled in attitudes of grief."
"I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas."
"There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard."
"Cow, goat, chicken, lamb . . . only slaves eat like this,' Musa said, heaping an impolite amount on to his plate. 'Our stomachs are graveyards."
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