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"The Five struggles to tell the stories of its subjects due to the minimal information available on these tragic women. Frustratingly, this seems to be resulting in far too many uses of "probably", "most likely", and other similar phrases." — Jan 29, 2021 09:25PM
"The Five struggles to tell the stories of its subjects due to the minimal information available on these tragic women. Frustratingly, this seems to be resulting in far too many uses of "probably", "most likely", and other similar phrases." — Jan 29, 2021 09:25PM
“What is the usual reaction among our friends and neighbors if in a family something unexpected happens?...Telephone and [email] are immediately put to work...and the incident is discussed for days on end. It is no wonder there is no time left in which to ponder on what it might mean, what message God might want to bring home to us by permitting this or that to happen in our lives...'To ponder' is an all-but-forgotten art in our days. Who thinks? We don't need to anymore. The TV and [internet] do it for us.”
― Yesterday, Today, and Forever
― Yesterday, Today, and Forever
“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
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“It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time...The losses are what define a man's faith.”
― The Well of Ascension
― The Well of Ascension
“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
― The Way of Kings
― The Way of Kings
“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
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