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It was actually a womens writing group I belonged to in graduate s

It was actually a womens writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction. – Mary Gordon

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One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss. – Mary Gordon

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I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad. – Mary Gordon

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It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins. – Jerome Cady

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Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence. – King Abdullah II

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Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character. – Loretta Young

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The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. – Jim Hightower

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The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both. – John Cornyn

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Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and dont tend to take themselves too seriously. – Dan Auerbach

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Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness. – C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they be censored. We were a very insular little family. – Maya Lin

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