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    James L. Rubart
    “I think all people have things in their past they need forgiveness for. In their present as well. And they need to be extended grace for what they regret.”
    ― James L. Rubart, The Chair
    tags: inspirational
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    James L. Rubart
    “I don't like perfect people. They're usually not.”
    ― James L. Rubart, Memory's Door
    tags: james-rubart, marcus-amber, memory-s-door
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    James L. Rubart
    “Its not that he didn’t appreciate his dishwasher. There was something about washing dishes by hand that was therapeutic, as if he could wash away the regrets of the past and photos he wanted to wipe out of his memory forever.”
    ― James L. Rubart, The Chair
    tags: inspirational
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    James L. Rubart
    “We are so good at treating the symptoms and so lacking in curing the disease.”
    ― James L. Rubart, Soul's Gate
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    Mandy J. Hoffman
    “Our choice to use or not use social media is not about social media--it is about the glory of God.”
    ― Mandy J. Hoffman
    tags: social-media
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    Mandy J. Hoffman
    “Social media inflames our already inflated view of self.”
    ― Mandy J. Hoffman
    tags: social-media
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    Mandy J. Hoffman
    “Just like using drugs and alcohol to numb the pain can -- and does -- lead to addiction, using social media to fill the void of relationships, or other needs, often leads to addiction, as well.”
    ― Mandy J. Hoffman
    tags: social-media
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    Mandy J. Hoffman
    “Loving others means being willing to do things for their benefit more than your own. And sometimes that looks like a Facebook account!”
    ― Mandy J. Hoffman
    tags: social-media
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    “I tried to dig myself into the Bible on my good days, and bury myself in Spurgeon on the bad ones. Because on the bad days, I simply couldn't understand a God who was okay with shunts and feeding tubes, so I read the words of those who had Him more figured out than I did.”
    ― Larissa Murphy
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    Elisabeth Elliot
    “George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.”
    ― Elisabeth Elliot
    tags: age, aging, christian, god, inspirational, jesus, old, stages, youth
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves!
    tags: hair, humor, redheads
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: friendship, literature
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I always advise people never to give advice.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: advice
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.”
    ― P. G. Wodehouse
    tags: childhood, humor, writing
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    The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at
    “The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Adventures of Sally
    tags: guns, humor, hunting, perspective, shooting
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “If he had a mind, there was something on it.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there, but Hercule Poirot, as well." ~ Bertram "Bertie" Wooster”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters
    tags: hercule-poirot, jeeves, sherlock-holmes, wodehouse, wooster
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    ― Cicero
    tags: books
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    George MacDonald
    “But in truth there was more expression in the flower than was yet in the face. The flower expressed what God was thinking of when He made it; the face, what the girl was thinking of her self. When she ceased thinking of herself, then, like the flower, she would show what God was thinking of when he made her.”
    ― George MacDonald, The Peasant Girl's Dream
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    George MacDonald
    “There was no pride, pomp, or circumstance of glorious war in this poor, domestic strife, this seemingly sordid and unheroic, miserably unheroic, yet high, eternal contest!”
    ― George MacDonald, Heather and Snow
    tags: mundane, vocation
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    Nancy Leigh DeMoss
    “Our malady is not "low self-esteem," nor is it how we view ourselves; rather, it is our low view of God.”
    ― Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free
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    Helene Hanff
    “I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me.”
    ― Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road
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    Helene Hanff
    “I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.”
    ― Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road
    tags: book-lover, books
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    Helene Hanff
    “My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at the bottom of page 20, say, I realise I can recite pages 21 and 22 from memory. Then I put the book away for a few years.”
    ― Helene Hanff, The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
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    Helene Hanff
    “And for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost by heart.”
    ― Helene Hanff, The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
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    Helene Hanff
    “I do think it's a very uneven exchange of Christmas presents. You'll eat yours up in a week and have nothing left to show for it by New Year's Day. I'll have mine till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I'm leaving it behind for someone else to love. I shall sprinkle pale pencil marks through it pointing out the best passages to some book-lover yet unborn.”
    ― Helene Hanff, 84 Charing Cross Road
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books, reading, we-are-what-we-eat, we-are-what-we-read, you-are-what-you-eat, you-are-what-you-read
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    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
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    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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