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“Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons.”
― Mark Twain

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

“I really wish the “normal” people would leave us freaks alone and stop trying to save us. We get by, we take care of each other, and the people who cost the freaks their jobs didn’t give them employment, or a place to stay, or a family to be a part of; they just destroyed their world and felt morally superior for doing it.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Dead Ice

“Face it, any culture that kills its children isn't looking at the long view.”
― John Darnton

“F. Scott Fitzgerald’s quotation: The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function?”
― Douglas Preston, Two Graves

“Do you have a sewing machine?"
"Maybe an antique. My Mom's not the knitty type."

From Jenny Pox”
― JL Bryan

“The Queen of Heaven informed him: “Wonder not that until now you [St. Dominic] have obtained so little fruit by your labors; you have spent them on a barren soil, not yet watered with the dew of divine grace. When God willed to renew the face of the earth, he began by sending down on it the fertilizing rain of the Angelic Salutation. Therefore, preach my Psalter.”1”
― Donald H. Calloway, Champions of the Rosary: The History and Heroes of a Spiritual Weapon

“corruption begets corruption.” He heard the bitterness he felt very clearly in his voice. “That’s what I hate about it most, the contagion of it. Men who could have been good become tainted, and the more of it there is the harder it is to survive without being touched by it. If you give people power, sooner or later they are tempted to abuse it. It takes a very strong man not to, a man wise enough to see its price, brave enough to go against the tide, and he can pay dearly for it.” Narraway”
― Anne Perry, Long Spoon Lane

“The Lord knows all, He sees all, and he will never not see the black mark on my heart.”
― Amy Cross, The Haunting of the King's Head

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire