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“Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?”

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Eugene Field was an American writer born on September 2, 1850, and died on November 4, 1895. He is renowned as a prominent children's literature author, known for his warm and imaginative works. more

“Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered while registering black voters in Mississippi in 1964, and Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 during the Selma march for voting rights.”

People Men Fighting Black Rights Men And Women Vote Died Lifetime Voting March Voters Mississippi Andrew Right To Vote Ku Klux Klan Viola Goodman

Author:Jeff Greenfield

“Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you'll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.”

Thinking Looks Children Young Father President Powerful Influence Figures Weak Bills Clinton Absence Barack Most Powerful Absent Johnson Young Children Father Figure

Author:Jeff Greenfield

“It strikes me as a sound, honest statement for a prospective voter to say: 'Look, I haven't given this election a minute's thought, and it's just not fair for me to cancel out the vote of someone who actually gives a damn.' Indeed, it's not just sound and honest - it's the ethically responsible thing to do.”

Giving Looks Given Sound Minutes Honest Havens Fairs Vote Responsible Election Strikes Statements Damn Things To Do Voters Not Fair

Author:Jeff Greenfield

“With, or despite our scars, we stay alive.”

Alive Despite Scar Staying Alive

Book:A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014: New and Selected Poems 1994–2014

Source: A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014: New and Selected Poems 1994–2014

“Women love a sick child or a healthy animal; A man who is both itches them like an incubus.”

Men Children Animal Healthy Sick Incubus Sick Children

Author:Marilyn Hacker

“These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.”

Looks Reason Strange Dissolution Strange Times

Author:Johan Huizinga

“The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.”

Way Fall Sky Handle Drunk Falling Down

Author:David Millar

“Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.”

Looks Player Football Aesthetic Display Manliness

Author:J. R. Moehringer

“The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.”

Use Night Player Rage Fuel Every Night Jordan Road Rage

Author:J. R. Moehringer

“Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.”

Play Games Fields Football Paper Letters Baseball Narrative Boxing Sooner Or Later Sheets Notebook Linear Handball

Author:J. R. Moehringer

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