"There are always a few who stand up……" — Geraldine Brooks
"There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us."
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54 Quotes by Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks has 54 quotes on this site.
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I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend…
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The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known,…
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I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.
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Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.
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We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one…
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My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style.…
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September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate…
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Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.
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I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and…
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Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread…
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My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.
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The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of…
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More Communal Quotes
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We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
— Theodore Bikel
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It's interesting when you're trying to create a character in animation. It's really a communal effort.
— Steve Carell
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Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed 'mental disorder' have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or…
— Aberjhani
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The story of the entrepreneur... is the story of forward progress, of pursuing one's dreams and goals no matter how…
— Sam Wyly
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The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development…
— Sigmund Freud
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Only dead mathematics can be taught where the attitude of competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.
— Mary Everest Boole
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I am local, rural, communal. And I find that the whole world is a community. We have made progress in…
— Unknown Author
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. . . the upsurge of Spirit is the only plausible way to stop the ecological destruction of our planet.…
— Michael Lerner
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Where it is in his own interest, every organism may reasonably be expected to aid his fellows. Where he has…
— Michael Ghiselin
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Our communal worship at Mass must go together with our personal worship of Jesus in Eucharistic adoration in order that…
— Pope John Paul II
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Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children…
— Garrett Hardin
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