Accepting Quote by Anna Quindlen

“The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.” quote by Anna Quindlen — Download Open image

“The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.”

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Accepting Easy Life Life is Sometimes Truth

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From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts…

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This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity.

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