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“the best cure for Communist ideals is to live, even for a short time, under a Communist regime.”
― Rachel Roth, Here There Is No Why

“Your parents are weirdos, in the best possible way. They do not celebrate birthdays; never in your life have you received a present on the tenth of December. Instead, you are given books on the days that their authors were born.”
― Robin Sloan, Ajax Penumbra 1969

“They saw the lion—its body the size of a cow—drag his grandmother into the thorny trees, then toss her body into the bush like a mouse. It then turned and faced its challengers, let out a terrible roar, and disappeared with its kill. The poor woman’s body was never recovered.”
― William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

“Grandpa says that once a lion gets a taste for human blood, it won’t stop until it’s eaten an entire village.”
― William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

“The Arabs from Zanzibar convinced them to become Muslim, then recruited them to capture our Chewa people and put us into bondage. They raided our villages, killed our men, then sent our women and children across the lake in boats. Once there, the slaves were shackled by the neck and made to march across Tanzania. This took three months. Once they reached the ocean, most of them were dead. Later on, the Yao captured and traded us to the Portuguese in exchange for guns, gold, and salt.”
― William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

“If it weren’t for the great Scottish missionary David Livingstone, the Yao and Chewa might still be at odds today. Livingstone helped end slavery, opened Malawi to trade, and built good schools and missions. Young men became educated and earned money, and once these economic opportunities were available to all, our two tribes had little reason to fight. Today we consider the Yao our brothers and sisters. My”
― William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

“Twenty days,” I said, looking at my father. “I’d say you’re right.” We smiled and stroked the leaves like swaddled babes, enjoying the soft music they created together in the breeze.”
― William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

“that they’ll die poor if they never visit the Smokey Mountains,”
― Richard Doster, Crossing the Lines

“I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it now: This is not who we are. This is not what we’re about.” I inched across the table. “We can’t let this stand, Dalton. We can’t let the whole world think this is the sum total of what we’ve got to offer,”
― Richard Doster, Crossing the Lines

“Our land has grown a magnificent liberty tree and its fruit is the richest ideal of the human soul. But, we cannot go on forever merely eating the fruit of the liberty tree or it will die. We must begin to plant some seeds.”
― Leon Uris, Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin

“Mama worked outside the home — in the garden.”
― Glenn Beck, Droughts & Dreams: Stories of Self-Reliance During America’s Darkest Times

“They recognized that they had little as compared to those in the top 10 percent, but they remained Republicans until their death, believing that freedom and self-initiative is the best for them and the country.”
― Glenn Beck, Droughts & Dreams: Stories of Self-Reliance During America’s Darkest Times

“If I’m only a Christian, or a patriot, or an American when it’s safe, then I’m none of those things at all.”
― Mark Goodwin, Persecution

“Cassie makes the best sugar cookies. I think we’ll have everything to make those. It’s a tradition to cut them out with Lacy every year and then decorate them with powdered sugar icing.” Noah laughed. “We started getting Lacy involved when she was three. You should have seen the mess in that kitchen the first year.”
― Mark Goodwin, Perdition

“Just as Jim had said, given a little nudge and enough freedom to operate, commerce and markets were the natural order of things.”
― Mark Goodwin, Perdition

“However, if you're already inclined to both write and pray, you may as well figure out how they can help each other.”
― Ed Cyzewski, Pray, Write, Grow: Cultivating Prayer and Writing Together

“That was when I learned that kindness could break a heart just as sure as meanness. The difference was the kindness made that broken heart softer. Meanness just made the heart want to be hard. Running”
― Susie Finkbeiner, A Cup of Dust: A Novel of the Dust Bowl

“The way I figured it, Jesus had the poor close to His heart because they were the ones who had nothing else to hold onto.”
― Susie Finkbeiner, A Cup of Dust: A Novel of the Dust Bowl

“It’s beautiful,” I whispered. “Green as grass.” I remembered grass. It could get as green as that dress.”
― Susie Finkbeiner, A Cup of Dust: A Novel of the Dust Bowl

“You can become interested too late to realize how important your family tree is. The”
― Ravi Zacharias, Walking from East to West: God in the Shadows

“For the first time, I felt my mind being stretched — and I loved it. I realized that thinking could be fun, and with that simple realization I was sent headlong into the lifelong discipline of reading. I”
― Ravi Zacharias, Walking from East to West: God in the Shadows

“The event had been organized by the International Workers of the World (IWW), also known as the “Wobblies,” who had engaged in protests across America, sweeping eastward from the Rocky Mountain states,”
― Stephen Puleo, Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

“their goals was to organize workers into one giant union that would one day topple capitalism, a mission that suited anarchists just fine. The”
― Stephen Puleo, Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

“Wobblies favored a Socialist form of government while anarchists believed in no government—their”
― Stephen Puleo, Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

“When we talk about property, State, masters, government, laws, courts, and police, we say only that we don’t want any of them.” William”
― Stephen Puleo, Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

“Authority meant nothing to these people, White thought, nor did the spirit of the season. If they were capable of sneaking a bomb into a police station and exploding the device during the holiest season of the year, they were capable of most anything. Now”
― Stephen Puleo, Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

“Lastly, it is not with us as with other men, whom small things can discourage, or small discontentments cause to wish themselves at home again ...7”
― Peter Marshall, The Light and the Glory

“That kind of thinking is often called wishful, but you need it for a starter. Give me a little more time, and see what I come up with.”
― R. G. G. LeTourneau, Mover of Men and Mountains

“Here’s what I think. I think that true love allows for each person to find happiness and contentment individually as well as together. You need to go do this, Suzanne—and for that matter, so do I. How can we build a life together until we’re sure of what we each want and need?”
― Anna Schmidt, The Peacemakers Trilogy

“embroiderers.” Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and “be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated” in accordance with the roles to which they might be called. For, she continued, “when a man of sense comes to marry, it is a companion whom he wants, and not an artist.”
― Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More--Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist