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People hope to point to the White House with pride. We believe that presidents told the truth and set an example through their actions. We parents want our children to respect and admire our president and our leaders. It is as simple as the old story of George Washington chopping down the cherry tree.


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MARY GARDEN I decided to write about the myths of divorce.
MARY GARDEN I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly.
MARY GARDEN If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don'...
MARY GARDEN Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, draw...
MARY GARDEN My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of ...
MARY GARDEN In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always st...
MARY GARDEN Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence...
MARY GARDEN I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I cou...
MARY GARDEN For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.
MARY GARDEN In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was con...
MARY GARDEN A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything...
MARY GARDEN My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.
MARY GARDEN It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was thei...
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