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at points in our lives, we have to choose the hills we__e willing to die on.

It__ a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic.

I want you out in the hallway, against the far wall in single file, ready to move, in fifteen. Drop your fartsack, Ratliff.

Decide, first, to simply be.

From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.

Here__ another example of the difference in our worldviews. A family in my sister__ neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy, when both the young mother and her three-year-old son were diagnosed with cancer. When Catherine told me about this, I could only say, shocked, __ear God, that family needs grace._ She replied firmly, __hat family needs casseroles,_ and then proceeded to organize the entire neighborhood into bringing that family dinner, in shifts, every single night, for an entire year. I do not know if my sister fully recognizes that this is grace.

mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society and to international order.

Never believe anything you hear at a woman__ tit.

silence across the field. When they reached the edge of the forest, Claire__ anxiety faded. It really would be easier

But whenever I see it happen, I always want to say the same thing. Good luck. Because you still have a woman in front of you, my friend. And you are still a man. It__ still two human beings trying to get along, so it__ going to become complicated. And love is always complicated. But still humans must try to love each other, darling. We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

adults forget how difficult that task was.

The customers, mostly well-to-do vacationers with little knowledge of turquoise, were using a standard principle__ stereotype__o guide their buying: __xpensive = good.

Even on especially hard days, I began to notice him everywhere, setting a table before me in the presence of my enemies, pursuing me with his love. Both the child and the cynic walk through the valley of the shadow of death. The cynic focuses on the darkness; the child focuses on the Shepherd.

Lance told me his father didn__ think much of him. __e wishes I was better. More better. At everything. I don__ do anything right, you know, Stevie. Nothing._ He said this matter-of-factly. He believed it as truth. Polly told me her father never said anything nice to her, but she kept trying as hard as she could to make him pay her some attention. __e always says, __on__ get fat as your mother has,_ but I don__ think Mom__ fat at all, but I try not to eat much, but he keeps saying it to me. Do you think I__ fat, Stevie? When my hair is messy do you think I look like a stray...

In my father__ scheme of things, there were Italians and then there was the rest of the world.

Perhaps our matching black outfits - even Phoebe wears dark colors - convince him that we are lesbian Buddhists

I write down the three measurements which Lou and I agreed are central to knowing if the company is making money: net profit, ROI and cash flow.

Tastykakes are just another of the many advantages of living in Jersey. They__e made in Philly and shipped to Trenton in all their fresh squishiness. I read once that 439,000 Butterscotch Krimpets are baked every day. And not a heck of a lot of them find their way to New Hampshire. All that snow and scenery and what good does it do you without Tastykakes?