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"Sure, cried the tenant men, but it's our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it's no good, it's still ours. That's what makes it ours-being born on it, working it, dying on it."
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"Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid."
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"She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises."
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"Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one."
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"To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole."
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"Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'"
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"The ancient paused for a moment, as if his strength were failing. Yet I sensed that there was more to tell. Looking deep into my eyes, he whispered: 'The Gond kingdoms have fallen, their people live dispersed in poverty: the teak trees and the jungles have been cleared... but the importance of the Gonds must not be forgotten!"
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"...But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins."
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"Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world."
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"Noble fathers have noble children."
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"No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will."
People
"Friends show their love in times of trouble."
Friendship
"No one who lives in error is free."
Wisdom
"Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account."
Being
"Cleverness is not wisdom."
Wisdom
"Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom."
Success
"Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm."
Hope
"Prosperity is full of friends."
Friendship
"All is change all yields its place and goes."
Philosophy
"Among mortals second thoughts are wisest."
Thought
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