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BRIAN LUNDSTROM It does not hurt us to go above the levy.
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JODI PICOULT Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in t...
JODI PICOULT I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and ...
JODI PICOULT Edward: "Wait--you were trying to hit on me?"
Susan: "Damn straight."
Edward: "The ...
JODI PICOULT Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.
JODI PICOULT Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.
JODI PICOULT You don't love someone because they're perfect," she says. "You love them in spite of the fact that ...
JODI PICOULT Intuition is a gift from God, it is your birthright. What you do with it is your gift back.
JODI LIVON What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis ...
JODI PICOULT Love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow — beautiful while it’s there, and just as likel...
JODI PICOULT When I do my concerts, you have got to think about everything else; so you have got to think about y...
JODI BENSON Homeschooling has given us some wonderful flexibility and some great life experiences, especially wi...
JODI BENSON A crowded ferry ride away from Tanzania's coastal city, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar is a marvel for ...
JODI BALFOUR Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born str...
JODI PICOULT It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have al...
JODI PICOULT Federal law is quite clear: Air National Guard units cannot be moved without the express permission ...
JODI RELL Tuition at our institutions of higher learning is slowly but surely being priced out of reach for mi...
JODI RELL When they asked Connecticut, we knew our facts and we had the documentation to back it up and it pai...
JODI RELL We have hit the crossroads today.
JODI RELL The freedoms we grant to quasi-public agencies must not be allowed to become a license for excesses,...
JODI RELL We danced forever, and not nearly long enough. Now that I faced him, I could touch him, too, rather ...
JODI MEADOWS You saved me," I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. "I had to," he said. "So y...
JODI PICOULT Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.
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