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People get it wrong when they talk about innocence: they think it's something to do with ignorance about the facts of sex and all the nasty things that happen in the world. But facts don't change people: it's understanding how the facts feel that does. — Alexia Casale

For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true lepers are only the illustration ordained by God to make us understand this wondrous parable, so that in saying 'lepers' we would understand 'outcast, poor, simple, excluded, uprooted from the countryside, humiliated in the cities.' But we did not understand; the mystery of leprosy has continued to haunt us because we have not recognized the nature of the sign. — Umberto Eco

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes. — Sam Abell

I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day. — Jodi Picoult

What type of 'person' is the for-profit corporation? A spoiled brat - all rights and no responsibilities, a traditional conservative argument would say. — Timothy Noah

From my experience, QuickBooks is the easiest to use of the computer packages available. It also has a handy — Max Newnham

I've had some of the best times of my life at The KK. The best staff at the greatest college bar in the country! — Chris Chelios

all right we are two nations — John Dos Passos

It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help. — Kerri Walsh

People who are not interested in food always seem rather dry and unloving and don't have a real gusto for life. — Julia Child

We grew careless, as people who are lost often do. — Alice Hoffman

In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole. — David Levithan

I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me. — Joshua Graham

Live in the nowhere that you come from
even though you have got an address Here. — Rumi