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Quote by Geraldine Brooks
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness a

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us. – Geraldine Brooks

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You cant write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. Im very interested in what religion does to us – its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence. – Geraldine Brooks

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Religion
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Theres just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you cant know it all, and thats where imagination can work. – Geraldine Brooks

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Imagination
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I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader. – Geraldine Brooks

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dad
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We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy. – Stokely Carmichael

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Freedom is a system based on courage. – Charles Peguy

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The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility. – Thomas S. Monson

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Every day you either see a scar or courage. Where you dwell will define your struggle. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. – H. L. Mencken

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Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows. – James Bryce

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I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education. – William Godwin

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