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What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.


Jeannette Rankin

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JEANNETTE ALFONSO Take my family - I have two brothers, his brother, a son and daughter, our house and my mother and o...
JEANNETTE ALFONSO We don't know. If they tell you you can't live there anymore, then what? We looked at living here, b...
JEANNETTE ALFONSO The tree burst into color and we all gasped at the red, yellow, green, white and the blue lights bol...
JEANNETTE WALLS If I owned hell and west Texas, he said, I do believe I'd sell west Texas and live in hell.
JEANNETTE WALLS In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his qu...
ARTHUR RANKIN, JR. A muscle is life in a nutshell
ZEBADEE L. RANKIN If you have anything to tell me of importance, for God's sake begin at the end
SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.
SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN Clothes and courage have much to do with each other.
SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serv...
SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN As we mature in faith, our willingness is tested, expanded, and refined. We become more conscious of...
JEANNETTE A. BAKKE Do not expect trust to appear suddenly and in a state of completion. Trust grows gradually as we ven...
JEANNETTE A. BAKKE The opportunity to tell our story unhindered, uninterrupted is rare. Most of the time people are so ...
JEANNETTE A. BAKKE We define Christian spiritual direction then, as help given by one Christian to another which enable...
JEANNETTE A. BAKKE A human being isn't an orchid, he must draw something from the soil he grows in
SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN I closed my eyes, but that didn't blur the images his words had evoked. "Oh, God," I murmured.
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JEANNETTE DE BEAUVOIR