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He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.

He is able to put aside personal feelings and see the broad strokes. Experience counts in these things.
– Geraldine Brooks

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  1. David ran through concrete advantages. And then set aside the practical. The pragmatist was gone, replaced by the poet and mystic. – Geraldine Brooks
  2. Whose are all these ghosts?- she said, smiling at a flustered-looking Geraldine. -œOh,- said Geraldine, -œI think they might be mine…? – Diane Hall
  3. Personal experience is the slowest way of learning. Combine your personal experience with other people’s experiences. – Mensah Oteh
  4. The good thing about democracy is that every vote counts. The problem with democracy is that every vote counts. – Charbel Tadros
  5. Not everything that can be counted counts.Not everything that counts can be counted. – William Bruce Cameron
  6. Don’t care about gods. Gods are irrelevant. What counts is people. What counts is having respect for each other. – Matthew Woodring Stover
  7. A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand. – Geraldine Brooks
  8. Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. – Geraldine Brooks
  9. Who is the brave man–he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination. – Geraldine Brooks
  10. I have lived most of my life in soldiers’ camps. I know what they saw. I know how they think. Their confidence sours as sudden as curdled milk. – Geraldine Brooks
  11. I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions. – Geraldine Brooks
  12. Avner had lived too long and become too canny to claim the crown of Israel for himself. – Geraldine Brooks
  13. Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand. – Geraldine Brooks
  14. When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared. – Geraldine Brooks
  15. No one sits, as you do, so close to a king, who does not begin to grasp how the levers of power work, and the cost of the oil that must grease them. – Geraldine Brooks
  16. This night he was a king before he was a man. At this time, this troubled me. Later, I would have cause to wish it were always so. – Geraldine Brooks
  17. The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip. – Geraldine Brooks
  18. To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind. – Geraldine Brooks
  19. Curiosity -“ if not desire, if not plain kindness -“ might have led him to greater zeal. – Geraldine Brooks
  20. the greatest cruelty of madness is the power it has to blot out a person. – Geraldine Brooks
  21. Where was his empathy? Buried, I supposed, beneath his self-regard. – Geraldine Brooks
  22. You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going. – Geraldine Brooks
  23. The wiles of a veteran turned the younger man’s own gift of speed against him. – Geraldine Brooks
  24. We look at the Ark of the Covenant and remember who we are. – Geraldine Brooks
  25. I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them. – Geraldine Brooks
  26. I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to demand of an unoccupied child. – Geraldine Brooks
  27. Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental. – Geraldine Brooks
  28. It is one thing to know what is to come. It is another thing to confront it. – Geraldine Brooks
  29. the heart of a prophet is not his own to bestow. – Geraldine Brooks
  30. He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that? – Geraldine Brooks
  31. You don’t need a prophet to tell you to eat. – Geraldine Brooks
  32. It’s remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do. – Geraldine Brooks
  33. I ceased to serve a king and began, instead, to serve a kingdom. – Geraldine Brooks
  34. David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting. – Geraldine Brooks
  35. When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience. – Jaeda DeWalt
  36. Keep the personal, personal and do not be guilty of spreading bad feelings. – John Patrick Hickey
  37. Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings. – Anthony Liccione
  38. Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return. – Gretchen Rubin
  39. When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more. – Warren Farrell
  40. Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, ifhe is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast. – Hermann Hesse

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