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Everyone needs fudge, Hildy. It's how God helps us cope.

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You cannot measure the loss of a human life. It's all the things a person was, all their dreams, all the people who loved them, all they hoped to be and could give back to the world.
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Will we have bodyguards? We're not quite set up for that. But with all these mothers, you don't need them.
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Everything's got a purpose, really - you just have to look for it. Cats are good at keeping old dogs alive. Loss helps you reach for gain. Death helps you celebrate life. War helps you work for peace. A flood makes you glad you're still standing. And a tall boy can stop the wind so a candle of hope can burn bright.
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Have you ever noticed that it takes a textbook dozens of pages to say what normal people can cover fast? Example: What was the full impact of World War II? Clear-cut teenage answer: we won.
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Mountains draw you to a deeper place in yourself
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Toys R Us. Zack put on a wool cap and sunglasses. You look like a bank robber, I observed. No toy is safe.
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If she's really psychic, Zack said when he saw Tanisha's photo at school, why does she need a doorbell?
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Teenagers are like bees at night, I think. We don't like waking up and we don't always get with the program immediately, but once we figure out our mission, we'll see it through.
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The sad heart needs work to do.
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Librarians understand about power - they know how to find anything.
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Like my grandmother always said, 'you never know the blessings that come from suffering.
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They marched. Not for themselves. They marched to remember the ones who didn't make it back. They marched because seeing so much loss can teach you about life. they marched because we're all fighting a war whether we know it or not...a war for our minds and souls and what we believe in.
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Sometimes you've got to shout the truth and wake people up.
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I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.
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My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.
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My father always told me that in this world we are going to make a truckload of mistakes, but the best mistake we can ever make is to err on the side of mercy
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The choices we make can have lasting consequences.
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If you can't find an answer at the mall or the library, what does that say about the world?
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It was probably easier in the old days when the bad guys rode into town wearing black capes or whatever bad guys wore and the milk cows were ownded by honest people. Right off the bat, you'd know who you were dealing with. Now everybody dresses alike.
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He stood up, put the tree back under the grow light. 'There. That's what's going to happen to us. It's called grafting. Taking something from one place and fixing it to another until they grow together. We didn't start from the same tree, but we're going to grow together like we did.
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