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I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power. - Patricia Cornw

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power. – Patricia Cornwell

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On the last morning of Virginias bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea. – Patricia Cornwell

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Morning
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In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted. – Patricia Cornwell

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Health
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power
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Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. – Joan Didion

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power

Prayer is mans greatest power! – W. Clement Stone

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power

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed. – Jean Anouilh

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power

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now. – Margaret Atwood

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power

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Some folks wear their halos much too tight. – Author Unknown

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Virtue

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. – Mary Wortley

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Happiness

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression. – A. Bronson Alcott, “Culture: IV.—Mother Tongue,” Tablets, 1868

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Grammar

A question asked in a Surrey school exam went: “Why do cocks crow early every morning?” A twelve-year-old replied: “My dad says they have to make the most of it while the hens are asleep.” – Quoted in the Peterborough Daily Telegraph, 1983

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