"To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do."
-Victor Hugo
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"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."
-Victor Hugo
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"One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation."
-Victor Hugo
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"The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness."
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"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution."
-Victor Hugo
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"Wisdom is a sacred communion."
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"I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me."
-Susan Smith
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"I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength."
-Dennis Nilsen
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"The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it."
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"Strength lies not in defence but in attack."
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"The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people."
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"Strength is a matter of the made-up mind."
-John Beecher
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