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It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous! ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#away #characters #down #dramatic #driving

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#being #being afraid #believe #believing #first

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves. ↗

— Billy Graham

#god #made #only #ourselves #save

When I was a little girl,' I said, sitting down, 'the wallpaper in my room had pictures of Noah's story.' [...] You know what's weird though? It's weird that the ark would be such a kids' story, you know? I mean, it's...really a story about death. Every person who isn't in Noah's family? They die. Every animal, apart from two of each on the boat? They die. They all die in the flood. Billions of creatures. It's the worst tragedy ever,' I finished, my voice tied off by a knot in my chest.[...] 'What the hell,'I said, 'pardon my language, was that doing on my wallpaper? ↗

— Adam Rex

#noah-s-ark #wallpaper #death

They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#back up #case #go #i #kind

If you need food stamps, you should meet the criteria. ↗

— Bob Goodlatte

#food #food stamps #meet #need #should

Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change are much more deadly, from the growing desertification of Africa to the threats of rising sea levels and the submersion of small island nations. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#beyond #borders #change #climate #climate change

War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#generals #government #more #parade #posing

We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#jobs #journalists #protect #their

A people must have dignity and identity. ↗

— Andrew Goodman

#identity #must #people