My mother listened to all the news

“My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.”

— Agnes Smedley

Author: Agnes Smedley
Category: sympathy
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I met Prince William at a musical

“I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.”

— Ellie Goulding

Author: Ellie Goulding
Category: music
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There is no doubt that religion had

“There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.”

— Tony Campolo

Author: Tony Campolo
Category: religion
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People are what you make them. A

“People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.”

— Andre Maurois

Author: Andre Maurois
Category: intelligence
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