It's a sight I plan to remember, this spontaneous unity when faced with disaster.
Margarita Engle
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and light ones
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IVO ANDRIć You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.
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GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Even when faced with unpleasant circumstances in life,see a rosy future.
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MADELEINE L'ENGLE You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Experiment is the mother of knowledge.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Believing takes practice.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that doe...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE At Tara in this fateful hour,
I place all Heaven with its power,
And the sun with its brig...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE A winter ago I had an after-school seminar for high-school students and in one of the early sessions...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. This cer...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE