Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have … - Willa Cather

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To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.

Willa Cather

Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.

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Success is never so interesting as struggle

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Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.

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Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.

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To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest.

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Charles Spurgeon

We are not alarmed because Satan hinders us, for it is a proof that we are on the Lord’s side, and are doing the Lord’s work, and in his strength we shall win the victory, and triumph over our adversary.

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Cinda Williams Chima

Sometimes you have to go somewhere else to appreciate what we have here.

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Garrison Keillor

Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is.

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Phil Callaway

Those who influenced me the most are not those who pointed out all my faults, but those who knew God was bigger than my shortcomings. Those who influenced me the most didn't just point a finger, they held out a helping hand.

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