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Quote by Margaret Wise Brown

“We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.”

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Margaret Wise Brown was an American children's literature writer, born on May 23, 1910, and died on November 13, 1952. Her works are known for their warm and intimate style and profound understanding of the child's emotional world. more

“The kind of response I hope for when I write my novels for children: to give them a chance to recognize something of their own feelings -- about themselves, their parents, their friends -- and their own situation as a kind of subject race, always at the mercy of the adults who mostly run their lives for them.”

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Author:Nina Bawden

“We are trying to get marijuana reclassified medically. If we do that, we'll be using the issue as a red herring to give marijuana a good name.”

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Author:Keith Stroup

“As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We're only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be alive. How lucky we all are.”

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Author:J.A. Konrath

“When man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of certainty for his knowledge.”

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Author:Cornelius Van Til

“There are those, of course, who deny that they need any form of authority. They are the popular atheists and agnostics. Such men say that they must be shown by 'reason' whatever they are to accept as true. But the great thinkers among non-Christian men have taken no such position. They know that they cannot cover the whole area of reality with their knowledge.”

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Author:Cornelius Van Til

“All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.”

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Book:Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility

Source: Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility

“Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite wisdom, holiness and love. And this doctrine, when properly understood, is a most comforting and reassuring one. Who would not prefer to have his affairs in the hands of a God of infinite power, wisdom, holiness and love, rather than to have them left to fate, or chance, or irrevocable natural law, or to short-sighted and perverted self? Those who reject God's sovereignty should consider what alternatives they have left.”

Source: The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination [Fifth Edition]

“I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.”

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Author:Kevin Cramer

“My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that.”

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Author:Kevin Cramer

“The greatest threats to North Dakota are policies coming out of Washington, D.C. I see it every day and feel a sense of responsibility to do something about it.”

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Author:Kevin Cramer

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