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July 2018 |
| "Soon all such communications from relatives in Europe ceased. The Germans had turned from military conquest to genocide." |
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November 2019 |
| As a young man, Abraham Lincoln spent six pivotal years in the frontier village of New Salem, Ill. The memories of that time profoundly changed him and influenced the rest of his life. |
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May 2012 |
| Going to school was like going from grey to grey, concrete to concrete, boring to boring. Our life was waiting in line for bread and toilet paper. I had never experienced biting into a fresh vegetable because our stores were vacant most of the time. |
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March 2018 |
| "It especially was hard to believe our experience: a mountain lion had leapt out and grabbed our daughter by the head. Every time I talked about it, I felt like I was reciting some story from a book." |
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May 2018 |
| "[Eating disorder] had found a home and he would reside with me for many years--the one constant in a life of flux. He was a satisfied tenant. I was a very accommodating landlord." |
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January 2001 |
| There are promising signs that, despite forecasts of doom, books still have a place in our minds and hearts. |
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March 2021 |
| ". . . The facts of the immediate past intrude on my soporific stupor: the attacks, the shock, the disgrace, the abandonment, the anguish, the loss, the spiral into nothingness." |
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November 2020 |
| "The late Chuck Colson of Prison Fellowship said it was the best artistic expression of the Christian faith in the 20th century. He was referring to the 1981 movie 'Chariots of Fire'. . ." |
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January 2017 |
| "Congress argued the validity of lies…and its approval ratings hit historic lows, in contrast to indictments and ethics investigations that soared to new highs. Still, nothing changed, as the fox continued to guard the hen house…" |
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January 2014 |
| ". . . Innocent Iranians were going to die because their government decided to build nuclear reactors next to them. It was either their death or another Jewish Holocaust." |
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July 2018 |
| The definitions vary--anywhere from two to four murders, with significant time in between each murder, the murders taking place over more than a month. This is different from mass murderers or spree killers. |
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January 2014 |
| "After our experience of prison and house arrest, death was not the worst option, but now Heidi and I had reason to fight for life--she was pregnant." |
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September 2016 |
| "You'll be on the line someday, crossing an empty chunk of desert, assaulting a bombed-out village, and your best buddy will get shot in the throat. You won't have time to stop and cry. You'll be firing back, thanking God it isn't your butt laying there…" |
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September 2004 |
| "The Nazis were fantasizing--basically planning to redesign the demographic map of Eastern Europe by moving all sorts of populations from here to there and eliminating those they thought superfluous. . . ." |
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March 2018 |
| There are stages victims go through as they're being [job]mobbed. First there's suspicion; next comes hurt; and then the victims become so distraught they seek counseling for depression. They socially withdraw and suffer panic attacks. |
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March 2012 |
| From the Middle Ages to today, Arabs have been unable to fight the superior forces, weaponry & discipline of the West. The countries of the East, on the other hand, have proven masterful at importing whatever technology is required to defeat any opponent. |
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July 2012 |
| Games can be taken away by bad plays, bad breaks, and bad calls. Losing is going to happen, but being better doesn't just mean being a better baseball player. |
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January 2019 |
| "One of my least-favorite expressions is 'killing time.' Life is too shrot to think of time in this way. There always is an opportunity to be full ypresent and realize the divine gift time is at any moment." |
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July 2007 |
| Cable TV heavyweight Lou Dobbs lambasts big government and big business for stripping hardworking Americans of their money and dignity. |
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July 2019 |
| "…Anarchy became its own brand of order…One after another, battalions sent to crack down on the populace were forced to retreat…Before long, the people of Beijing had grown used to a bizarre life under half-martial law." |
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May 2015 |
| "The pace of modern life means that the view from our window often is a blur, and this means that we easily can miss imporant stops - ones that would enhance and enrich our existence." |
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March 2019 |
| It is time "to exonerate [Vincent] van Gogh from the stigma--going against his person, his beliefs, and his religion--that he committed suicide." |
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March 2015 |
| "[Photographer Jim Marshall] helped immortalize artists such as the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and the Jefferson Airplane before they became household names." |
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July 2011 |
| For eight years, I lived and worked in the kill zone as part of my everyday job. During this time, there were numerous threats on the life of Pres. Bill Clinton. |
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May 2021 |
| "Short is the employment of this world. The Hereafter is far better for him who fears Allah." |
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January 2021 |
| The Beatles could have done a cinema variation on the Marx brothers. The twist is that the Marxes acted surreal in a sane world, while the Beatles attempted to maintain sanity in a world gone mad. |
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July 2009 |
| "I will be buried with my husband," she said, throwing me completely off. "I can't stand the thought of our daugher being buried with us." |
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May 2016 |
| "In [Ty] Cobb's case, [false] repetition not only has destroyed a man's reputation, it has obliterated a real story that is more interesting than the myth." |
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March 2017 |
| "Our fall into the depth had lifted us to new heights, in much the same way that, ironically, knowledge that we will die makes us treasure life. Our unlikely surprise gift almost made us wonder if a stroke bringing us down was a small price to pay…" |
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January 2011 |
| In a world in which simple has becoome synonymous with either ascetism or stupidity, is if preferable to be sophisticated or simple? |
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March 2008 |
| "Her kind features . . . bore death absurdly in the [flashlight's] beam. One hand protruded from the piling snow, with the wrist turned toward the head as though she were about to flip a stray hair from her eye." |
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March 2018 |
| "Some days I am numb, just making it through the day. Other days I am full of hope, waiting with baited breath for an email, call, or doorbell that says our child is coming home." |
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January 2019 |
| "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." |
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January 2015 |
| "Gesticulating with their Kalashnikovs, they yell at us: 'Why are you here? Who are you? What to you want?' We try to explain: 'We are tourists. We are sailing a boat. We are on holiday." It is obvious they do not believe us." |
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July 2018 |
| "Maharishi . . . stopped and looked me up, down, and back up again. His face became stern. He looked through me, not at me--as though he were scanning hidden corners of my mind." |
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May 2019 |
| "If Rose realized that her grandson Adam was named in memory of her murdered-in-the-Holocaust older brother Avram, or possibly was even a little pleased by the honor, she sure never mentioned it." |
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November 2017 |
| The stories span across decades of experiences, mirroring our lives with music--how we come to experience music for the first time, how we grow with music, how music helps us to understand the world around us, the many ways music can help us heal. . . |
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November 2021 |
| "Christmas Eve--a packed auditorium. Every Jewish person in town is here because it's social--a good event, a good charity, and what else do these people have to do tonight?" |
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