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| 28975eb | If there is one indelible image from the Battle of Tarawa, it is a photo of dozens of dead Marines bobbing in the shallows just off what was called Red Beach II. I often launched my windsurfer from Red Beach II. Just twenty yards from the beach lies a rusting amtrac. At reef's edge are the brown ribs of a ship long ago grounded, where Japanese snipers once picked off Marines wading and swimming and floating toward a beach that offered nothi.. | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| c2ffa48 | They say that you can never go home again. You look for everything to be the same and when you find that things have changed, you are left reeling, crestfallen and dazed. | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| 79344b8 | if you're looking to see what the government of Kiribati finally decides to do, when do they wave the flag and say the last good-bye, I'm afraid I can't help you. But look around, follow the news, Google it, bear witness. The very least we could do for the canary is acknowledge its demise. | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| 6840c0c | On Washington's Red Line, which may as well be called the White Line as it rumbles below the city's palest quadrant, the atmosphere is discernibly different. It is all rustling of newspapers and ruffling of reports. It is sighing and harrumphing, little nonverbal gestures that say, all things being equal, they rather wish the entire world would fuck off. Washingtonians, it occurred to me, were not flip-flop people. I wondered how different .. | J. Maarten Troost | ||
| 458ddd8 | This right to speak serves as the wellspring nourishing other rights. Art cannot flourish, literature cannot inspire, the powerless cannot dissent, the press cannot probe, the voter cannot choose wisely, the space for dialogue cannot remain open, and our system cannot be self-correcting without the First Amendment's guarantee. That makes free speech bigger than an individual possession, for the right to be heard is also the right to hear: y.. | David K. Shipler | ||
| 44a0e39 | On their way to jail, to deportation from the country, or to expulsion from school, those who confront the muscle of the state frequently see their rights bruised, their liberties wounded. This book is about some of those people. Therefore, it is about all of us. | David K. Shipler | ||
| 13834b0 | A key test for any society is whether or not it is self-correcting. And to be self-correcting, it must first be open and truthful about itself. | David K. Shipler | ||
| 1eabf28 | Terrorism is theater. Its real targets are not the innocent victims but the spectators. Those on the political side of the dead are to be frightened, intimidated, cowed, perhaps drawn into ugly retaliation that will spoil their image among the disinterested, who in turn are to be impressed with the desperate vitality and significance of the movement behind the terrorism. Those on the side of the gunmen, the bombers, the hijackers, are to be.. | David K. Shipler | ||
| 4383fcb | Being poor is a full-time job, it really is. | David K. Shipler | ||
| 53ba5f1 | If every American school taught the Bill of Rights in a clear and compelling way, if every child knew the fundamental rules that guide the relationships between the individual and the state, then every citizen would eventually feel the reflexive need to resist every violation. We had better begin now, for rights that are not invoked are eventually abandoned. | David K. Shipler | ||
| b826910 | Since a president can easily slide into a comfort zone of sycophants, it can't hurt him to see a few demonstrators with rude T-shirts injecting a small dose of irreverence into a triumphant appearance. In the age of stage-managed events for television, however, White House aides don't like it. | David K. Shipler | ||
| a808249 | Publications aren't the only forms of expression now governed by Hazelwood's ruling that speech can be limited when administrators claim ownership of the statement and think it's "unsuitable." Courts have applied the standard to plays, homework assignments, team mascots, and even cheer-leading.62 A cheerleader in Texas was kicked off the squad after she refused to cheer for a basketball player whom she had accused of sexually assaulting her.. | David K. Shipler | ||
| 1f95791 | Heavy reliance on the tool of confession is lazy. It aborts justice. As a result, whoever murdered eight people that March day in Bwindi--whether the three defendants or others--was not held to account. | David K. Shipler | ||
| 44b91d1 | The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear? | David K. Shipler | ||
| 6e46ea4 | The intelligence professional's passion to collect everything possible is nicely illustrated in an NYPD report under the rubric "Secret," and beneath a blacked-out box that may have contained notes from an infiltrator. The censored document declares ominously in large type: "LOCAL ACTIVIST GROUP TO USE ART MURALS IN ORDER TO SPREAD PEACE MESSAGE; GROUP MAY USE DIRECT ACTION METHODS IN CONJUNCTION WITH STREET THEATRE." It describes the organ.. | David K. Shipler | ||
| e85fc32 | History in the Middle East has a marvelous elasticity. It is easily stretched, twisted, compressed in the hands of its custodians, squeezed to fit into any thesis of righteous cause or pious grief. But it also has a way of springing back into an inconvenient form, a shape made of hard reminders. Certain features of the past remain as immutable as the ancient stones in Jerusalem--the Western Wall of huge Herodian blocks, the outcropping of b.. | David K. Shipler | ||
| df3dab2 | At the extremes of the debate, liberals don't want to see the dysfunctional family, and conservatives want to see nothing else. Depending on the ideology, destructive parenting is either not a cause or the only cause of poverty. Neither stereotype is correct. In | David K. Shipler | ||
| d85927c | Love comes unseen,--we only see it go. | Henry Austin Dobson | ||
| b61ce3b | Driving from the shop by the beach to her home in the Malibu hills, Juliet Weston peered through the deepening dusk and weighed the merits of bathing in Super Glue. A dab would repair a fingernail. She'd read a line of the stuff could close a wound. What she faced was more dire, however. Would immersion in a tub of maximum-hold adhesive keep he from fracturing into a thousand little pieces? | Christie Ridgway | ||
| 430565f | Emotionally intelligent people can focus their emotions to improve performance and productivity. | communication-skills emotional-intelligence-quotes motivational-speaker preparation-quotes quotes-by-susan-c-young relationship-quotes susan-young | Susan C. Young | |
| 341e9fe | Driving from the shop by the beach to her home in the Malibu hills, Juliet Weston peered through the deepening dusk and weighed the merits of bathing in Super Glue. A dab would repair a fingernail. She'd read a line of the stuff could close a wound. What she faced was more dire, however. Would immersion in a tub of maximum-hold adhesive keep her from fracturing into a thousand little pieces? | Christie Ridgway | ||
| 5846b0f | It's... You've been all over the world. Been in perilous places, taken risks that stop my breath. In comparison to all that, will what we might have...will I be enough?" "Sweetheart..." "You said my world, this world, is colorless, remember?" It almost made him laugh. "Honey-pie, when I'm with you, I think of a thousand colors. Your beautiful silvery eyes, your lemon-yellow swimsuit, your pink sunburn, your pumpkin shoes. You're.... | Christie Ridgway | ||
| e872fbc | blindfolded." "Tell me you're kidding," he said. But then came the screech of brakes on his left and the matching shriek of Yeager's heart. "Shit, Zoe! Open your eyes." He heard the grin in her voice. "Don't worry so much. That was just Mr. Curtis in his '72 El Dorado. He drives with cataracts, I drive with my eyes closed. I think that makes us about even." Yeager's self-pity evaporated as he imagined thousands of" | Christie Ridgway | ||
| 793736f | hurrying | Christie Ridgway | ||
| 39d4dec | hurrying out the sliding doors pushing her purloined baggage cart--purse perched on top--hadn't been such a smart idea. But she'd only turned away for a moment to offer aid to a "mama"-wailing toddler, and when she'd turned" | Christie Ridgway | ||
| 7584593 | corners of her eyes, and she squeezed them tight, mortified that she might have to explain--again--a crying jag. It had just been so long since she'd snuggled up to something this big, this warm, this human. "You smell better than Grimm," she said against Ryan's mouth. He drew back a little. "What?" She discovered her tears had dried up and" | Christie Ridgway | ||
| 5045887 | You shared it all, and the other person took you in. Your partner was your shelter when you needed that, was your peace when that was paramount, was in your corner no matter how unwinnable the fight. This was what love was about. And love was exactly what Owen Marston realized he felt for his wife. | Christie Ridgway | ||
| d059402 | herself she'd be picturing her grandparents making love or worse... She'd be picturing Bing. His mouth on her breasts and his hands | Christie Ridgway | ||
| 1de443a | Knowing he couldn't go back to | Christie Ridgway | ||
| 6f96a0a | Desire. Enthusiasm. Purpose. Pleasure. Delight. Peace. Power. However you define passion, it is at the heart of your motivation. | communication-quotes communication-skills confidence first-impressions integrity motivational-speaker passion relationship-quotes susan-young | Susan C. Young | |
| 5600cc6 | Feeling passion fuels your spirit and feeds your joy. | communication-quotes communication-skills confidence first-impressions integrity motivational-speaker passion relationship-quotes susan-young | Susan C. Young | |
| 4f5596f | Passion is a catalyst for action and provides you with the emotional stamina to stick with it, regardless of the obstacles. | communication-quotes communication-skills confidence first-impressions integrity motivational-speaker passion relationship-quotes susan-young | Susan C. Young | |
| 8f68cc1 | For any development to take place, there has to be gender equity. | Aishatu Madawaki | ||
| 55f283e | Women are very peaceful, tolerant, incorruptible and patriotic. | Aishatu Madawaki | ||
| f37f083 | My tattoos symbolise something to me, after all they will remain with me forever. | Aiysha Saagar | ||
| 82c556e | O English girl, divine, demure,To YOU I sing! | Henry Austin Dobson | ||
| 7d4270c | Think of the times in your life when you have been deeply passionate about something. Whether it is for your family, a cause, a person, an adventure, a hobby, a career, a love for music, or even going to the beach--your passion for it helps you tap into your unique personal power to live and love your life out loud. | communication-quotes communication-skills confidence first-impressions integrity motivational-speaker passion relationship-quotes susan-young | Susan C. Young | |
| f4da171 | Life rewards action. To get from where you are now to where you want to be requires forward movement and momentum. Although you may already know what it takes to bridge the gap, simply knowing what to do is not enough. | communication-skills customer-service-quotes emotional-intelligence-quotes motivational-speaker-susan-young quotes-by-susan-c-young relationship-quotes susanspeaks-com | Susan C. Young | |
| f6ccabf | If the Americans attack Iran, the world will change. ...They will not dare to make such a mistake' | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani | ||
| f232feb | rogue | Connie Mason | ||
| ef20856 | and skidded to a halt before him. "The prisoners are gone, Lionheart!" | Connie Mason | ||
| aa584fb | Oh, Rob, ye're alive!" Elspeth put both arms around his neck and hugged him close. "I was afeard ye were gone, but ye're alive!" "Aye, lass," he said with a sinful grin. "Completely alive." She was suddenly aware of the hardness of his groin against her belly and pulled back away from him." | elspeth-and-rob | Connie Mason | |
| e8d8df2 | He turned around to look at the house. Elspeth was behind one of the vellum-covered windows. Did she wonder where he was? If it had been high summer and the windows left uncovered to let in a breeze, would she have peeked out at him as he stood on the shoal, naked as God made him? He soaped up his groin. Just the thought that Elspeth might spy on him at his bath made part of him happier than it ought to be, considering the temperature. | Connie Mason | ||
| d5e5234 | I promise ye, lass, I'll keep ye safe. No one will harm ye." He grasped at anything he could think of to dry up her tears. "I offer ye the protection of my body and my sword arm for as long as we bide together. And any time ye might have need of them after." Her whole frame shuddered with a silent sob. "Please, lass." He stroked her from the crown of her head to the base of her spine. She shivered under his touch, so he didn't do it again. .. | highlander-romance | Connie Mason |