Time and time again people showed better qualities than we

Time and time again people showed better qualities than we might dare to hope for, sometimes against all expectation.

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In "The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine," author Alexander McCall Smith emphasizes the idea that human beings often exhibit remarkable qualities, especially in challenging circumstances. Despite doubts or pessimism, individuals can surprise us with their resilience, kindness

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Do not allow the profession of which you are a member to induce you to take a bleak view of humanity. You will encounter all sorts of bad behavior but do not judge everybody by the standards of the...

Time and time again people showed better qualities than we might dare to hope for, sometimes against all expectation.

Mma Makutsi was unconvinced. Where there is smoke there's fire, Mma. I have always said that. Mma Ramotswe could not let that pass. But what does Clovis Andersen say in The Principles of Private...

What they would see first would be a darkening of the sky in the east-a change from empty blue to a grey-white that would gradually shade into a heavy, inky purple. And then there would be a wind-the...

go badly wrong. Sex, she thought. That is what is going to go wrong here. And she was right. This woman, Mma Gabane Gabane went on, this foolish, foolish woman met a young man who worked in the same...

There are broad shoulders, the saying went, even where there are no broad shoulders.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

Race of Cain, ascend to heaven, And cast God down upon the earth!

Race of Cain, ascend to heaven, And cast God down upon the earth!

Here's to everyone who has survived something devastating - - something that shattered your self - confidence and distorted your world in one blow. Whether you were fierce in the face of it or fell to...

Here's to everyone who has survived something devastating - - something that shattered your self - confidence and distorted your world in one blow. Whether you were fierce in the face of it or fell to pieces or shoved it out of sight for years - - I don't care how you got here. Every day you are stronger. Every day you are healing. Every day that you survive, you are telling that event, that person, that illness, that memory: YOU DO NOT DEFINE ME. Keep on. - - Acknowledgements

"Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels."

"Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels."

You don't know what you are.

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