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41 " Children are a blessing, but God has given us a brain, and we are not prevented from using it to help us organize our lives. "
― Elizabeth Letts , Finding Dorothy
42 " The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published in 1900. The turn of the century. "
43 " As Mother had assured her many times before, every man, woman, and child, Negro, believer, unbeliever, and even the critters of the field deserved an equal shot at happiness. "
44 " is going to fix them for you.” CHAPTER 22 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 1891 MAUD GULPED REPEATEDLY AND TOOK deep breaths through her nose. "
45 " was there anyone, big or small, who didn’t know Dorothy and the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Lion? "
46 " though as he looked across the field at the international panel of judges assembled there, he knew that this was not just a competition but also an elaborate game of political chess. "
― Elizabeth Letts , The Perfect Horse: the Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis
47 " Designed to showcase the Nazi Party’s Aryan ideals, the Berlin Olympics were a piece of nationalistic theater dressed up as a sporting event. "
48 " Their worlds were full of mystical connections and wild coincidences-beautiful twists of fate that unfolded to give one's life a shape as graceful and parabolic as a perfectly plotted book. "
49 " You see what I’m up against,” Mayer said. “Everyone has an opinion. "
50 " By the time you reach my age, you’ve lost all kinds of important people, and talking to those who are gone comes to seem quite in the ordinary course of things. "
51 " Was it possible? Was there really somewhere else—somewhere at the far end of the rainbow that was better than this place? She certainly hoped so. "
52 " The war had destroyed many things, but one of the worst casualties was the loss of hope for a peaceful world. Yet every man who saw these horses at Hostau ended up with a smile on his face and an image in his mind of a world less troubled than the one in which he currently dwelled. "