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The girls from Tanzania were all between 17 and 25, they had little or no education. At the orphanage they would learn how to feed and clean the children and put them to bed. If a kid said his stomach hurt, one of the girls might hit them.


Bess Brooks

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PHILLIPS BROOKS No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and wit...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Let
MEL BROOKS No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which...
PHILLIPS BROOKS I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.
GARTH BROOKS Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
PHILLIPS BROOKS It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vit...
BROOKS ATKINSON You know a dream is like a river, ever changing as it flows.
And a dreamer's just a vessel that m...
GARTH BROOKS Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and ...
BROOKS ATKINSON Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and pr...
PHILLIPS BROOKS The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
GARTH BROOKS The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all respons...
BROOKS ATKINSON Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your a...
MEL BROOKS Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
BELLAMY BROOKS Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t...
LOUISE BROOKS Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t...
LOUISE BROOKS Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
PHILLIPS BROOKS We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be ...
PAUL BROOKS Each body has its art...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKS Humor is just another defense against the universe.
MEL BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pra...
PHILLIPS BROOKS I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I&...
ALBERT BROOKS If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einst...
RODNEY BROOKS Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
THOMAS BROOKS The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out h...
PHILLIPS BROOKS We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly proce...
MO BROOKS Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w...
TERRY BROOKS Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the liv...
TERRY BROOKS