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At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

Home Growing Up Weren't
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I have suffered from bullying in many ways, from bullying in school due to my disability in reading, to digital abuse that I deal with on a daily basis. I'd like to tell the kids that are being bullied that no one should have to deal with the abuse, ever!

Abuse Basis Being Bullied
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“I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion”

Regards Education Task Survival
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

Used Think Religion Just
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“There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.”
More Setle Less Lives
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“There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through the journey of life.
Exist Everyone Passion Thirst
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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.

Readers Fiction Read Think
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“Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and despite mockery from the world. . . .”

Education Young Effect Right
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My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file.

Morning Begins With Trying
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“The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give this help, tends to change the balance of power in a youth's inner life with the result that compassion can become the master motive.”

Experience Fellow Danger Training
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“The passion of rescue reveals the highest dynamic of the human soul.”
Passion Rescue Reveal Dynamic
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“Whenever you have to deal with a boy who is a rebel, remember that you must not fail at some time or other to get him to face the question, Are you going to be a fighter or quarreler?”

Remember Boy Rebel Fail
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“We are all better than we know. If only we can be brought to realize this, we may never be prepared to settle for anything less”
Better Realize Prepared Settle
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.

It's Funny Thing People
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“Your disability is your opportunity.”
Disability Your Opportunity
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For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.

For Me Writing Always
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.

Every Time Step Onto
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“Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate.”
Highly Yourself Estimate Takes
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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.

Motherhood So Sentimentalised Romanticism
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I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.

Love Developing Children Characters
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

After Poisonous Bible Was
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A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.”

Man Study Brain Hungry
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“Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. ”

Entertainment Devil Joy
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Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!

Most Every Book Bring
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Start going to bed earlier! It is a tough adjustment when you have had a summer of staying up late and waking up late.

Adjustment Bed Earlier Going
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“The greatest miracle that God can do today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world and make him holy, then put him back into that unholy world and keep him holy in it.”

Greatest Miracle God Today
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

Live Rural Part Virginia
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“How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?”

Pull Strongholds Satan Strength
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I know that some girls look up to me for certain things, like dyslexia, and that way I know that they like me for me, so it adds no pressure.

Adds Certain CertainThings Dyslexia
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I don't have to try to be perfect because I know that my fans like me for who I am. They like me because I am weird and kind of funky, but still really calm.

Am Because Calm Fans
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“There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.”
Kinds People World Black
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My dad would call me his Cuban princess because I had really dark olive skin because I was always in the sun; but I don't really go in the sun anymore, so that is why I am so white.

Always Am Anymore Because
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“The early church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.”
Early Church Married Poverty
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“Preacher, keep your knees on the ground & your eyes on the throne.”

Preacher Keep Eyes Throne
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“You can't live wrong and pray right.”

Live Wrong Right Pray
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“When there’s something in the Bible that churches don’t like, they call it legalism.”

Something Bible Churches Legalism
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If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him does it matter whom we displease?”

Displease God Matter
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“My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF...my GOD.”
Goal Joy Peace Blessing
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“One of these days some simple soul will pick up the book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.”

God Book Days Believe
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“Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.”

Entertainment Devil Joy Lord
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“There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are.”

Persons Living Us Think
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“Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?”
Things Living Christt Dying
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“LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!”

Lord Strengthen Weak Strong
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“Is the world crucified to you or does it fascinate you?”

World Crucified Fascinate You
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“Satan fools and feigns, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget the

Satan Feigns Bluffs Threats
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“If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.”
Prayer Sleepless Night Fewer
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“The Gospel is not an old, old story, freshly told. It is a fire in the Spirit, fed by the flame of Immortal Love; and woe unto us, if, through our negligence to stir up the Gift of God which is within us, that fire burns low.”

Gospel Old Story Freshly
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“The apostles had no gold, but lots of glory. We have lots of gold, but no glory.”
Apostle Gold Glory
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I personally don't think you can love two things like dancing and singing the same exact amount. There is always one that you like more, and that is most likely the one that you're better at, because you try harder in it.

Always Amount Because Better
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“Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.”

Someday Pick book Bible Shame
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