“Life must not be squandered. A person got from life what he put ino it.”
― LaVyrle Spencer, quote from The Endearment
“Sometimes we must do things, plenty scared or not. To be able to say afterward,`I was plenty scared`makes a man a bigger man, not a smaller one.”
― LaVyrle Spencer, quote from The Endearment
“A good logger does not raze the forest, but only thins it.”
― LaVyrle Spencer, quote from The Endearment
“A man does what must be done,' Karl said, trying to concentrate on his board-making.
"But you never complain."
'What good would complaining do? A job takes so many hours of work, complaining will not shorten those hours.”
― LaVyrle Spencer, quote from The Endearment
“It seems you are the kind of squaw those Indians would like to have, but make sure they don't! One who keeps her men in line!”
― LaVyrle Spencer, quote from The Endearment
“the wilderness. Who in his right mind would not want someone to take care of these unpalatable household tasks?”
― LaVyrle Spencer, quote from The Endearment
LaVyrle Spencer
Born place: in Browerville, Minnesota, The United States
Born date July 17, 1943
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“We have been shirking too long, and that's unworthy of a great civilization. To see off the new Dark Ages will be tough and demanding. The alternative will be worse.”
― Mark Steyn, quote from America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
“Crisis is routinely identified as a core mechanism of fascism because it short-circuits debate and democratic deliberation. Hence all fascistic movements commit considerable energy to prolonging a heightened state of emergency. Across the West, this was the most glorious boon of World War I.”
― Jonah Goldberg, quote from Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
“And lying there, her hair in damp strands across her crumpled face, Harriet gave up the long, long struggle to love her father and her aunt.
"It was for this loss above all that she wept. She had learned, during the long years of her childhood, to live without receiving love. To live without giving it seemed more than she could bear.”
― Eva Ibbotson, quote from A Company of Swans
“If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. It is the same with the life of humanity. If it had a programme of the life which awaited it before entering a new stage, it would be the surest sign that it was not living, nor advancing, but simply rotating in the same place.”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from The Kingdom of God Is Within You
“Aminotriazole (herbicide used on cranberry crops, causing the “cranberry scare’” of 1959) DDT (widely known after Rachel Carson’s book, Silent Spring) Nitrites (a meat preservative and color and flavor enhancer used in hot dogs and bacon) Red Dye Number 2 Artificial sweeteners (including cyclamates and saccharin) Dioxin (a contaminant of industrial processes and of Agent Orange, a defoliant used during the Vietnam War) Aflatoxin (a fungal toxin found on moldy peanuts and corn)”
― T. Colin Campbell, quote from The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-term Health
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