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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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My mothers family were full-on Irish Catholics – faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over womens rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old. – Geraldine Brooks

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Faith
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Geraldine Brooks
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The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow. – Geraldine Brooks

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Fear
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Geraldine Brooks
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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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Geraldine Brooks
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Courage
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Courage is… the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. – David Ben-Gurion

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Courage

If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults. – Brian Baird

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Courage

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid. – James A. Michener

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Courage

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up. – Ginnifer Goodwin

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Courage

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In bad fortune hold out, in good hold in. – Proverb

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Fortune

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. – Oscar Wilde

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Future

Ive done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and Ive found no evidence that it brings happiness. – Mary McCormack

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Happiness

I dont have a problem with my body. I dont diet, and Im not hiding anything. Im not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now. – Lara Flynn Boyle

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diet