tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23106771678317921812024-03-13T00:45:20.318-06:00The End Is Not the EndI am a laid-back person, but I am strong in my beliefs. I do not enjoy other people telling me how to believe or implying that everyone should be the exact same in their thinking. Christ died and rose again to take away away our sins and iniquities, not our minds, and he knitted us together in our mother's womb to make a difference in our world. I love people and God, and I can't wait to reach Heaven!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger235125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2310677167831792181.post-38262617375682998772013-07-21T22:30:00.000-05:002013-07-22T19:59:53.065-05:00The Great Mogul Diamond<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The third book in the Doppleganger Chronicles is probably the best. This time the twins are traveling to France and have officially moved in with Muzz Elliot, a bestselling writer. Erik is learning to be a detective, thanks to American Dorcas Potts. He still lives at the orphanage, though.<br />
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The setting is Britain.<br />
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There's a murder on the train the twins are traveling on, and there's a mysterious man following the twins and Muzz, who goes to France on what the twins suspect is blackmail.<br />
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And the Great Mogul Diamond disappears. <br />
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Who is the mysterious man?<br />
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Who is blackmailing Muzz? <br />
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Who is the thief who is trying to frame Muzz Elliot? <br />
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And what Christian principles will the twins learn?<br />
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And of course they want to find their mother.<br />
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This series is mysterious and interesting, following abandoned twins who get adopted (but who always long for their mother) and then have adventures relating to their adopted parents. Although this takes place in modern times, the feel of the book makes it seem in the past. And the fact it's a graphic novel series (and did not originate as a longer series) makes it even more original and creative.<br />
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I really enjoyed reading this book.<br />
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It deserves a 10. <br />
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Praying you have faith, hope, and love always,<br />
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<i>Rachel</i></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2310677167831792181.post-56810833059081173422013-07-09T15:26:00.001-05:002013-07-09T15:26:38.422-05:00Join the Tyndale Reading program<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Join the Tyndale reading program and get 25 points for signing up by clicking on this link: <a href="http://tyndalerewards.com/signup/?pc=iikq-jncl-8kaa-591t">http://tyndalerewards.com/signup/?pc=iikq-jncl-8kaa-591t</a>. I love being involved in this program and I have already gotten numerous free gifts, including Bibles and books.<br />
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Praying you have faith, hope, and love always,<br />
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Rachel</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2310677167831792181.post-75074463484064722442013-07-04T15:21:00.001-05:002013-07-04T15:21:31.483-05:00Remove the sticky label from anything<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I hate sticky labels on plates, bowls, cups, etc. Well, here's a process to help make that easier!<br />
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Thank God for days off! Home readies do work! I wanted to get some sticky labels off my eating ware.<br />
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Well! My kitchen looks like a mini workstation! Mayo on one counter, alcohol and rag nearby, cup in the sink, and a vinegar/water mix on the back counter! But it works!<br />
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Here's the process:<br />
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1) Lather a generous amount mayo on the label's area. I made sure I couldn't see the label anymore, I put so much mayo on it. Wait 5-15 minutes (the longer, the easier it is to pick off).<br />
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2) Clean off the mayo and take off as much of the label as possible.<br />
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3) Put the piece in the vinegar/water (more vinegar than water) with the label down in the mixture. This is about 5-15 minutes too.<br />
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4) Take the piece out of the mixture. Wash off the cup in soap and water, picking pieces of the label off in the process.<br />
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5) Lather alcohol generously onto a dish rag (in my experience, it HAS to be a dish rag, I used one from the dollar store, but it must be a dish rag). Scrub the label until all the stickies are off. (The stickies may look weird and may try to come off when you touch it. Just pick it off your fingers and keep going until it's all gone. The residue will be left on your dish rag, but just throw it in the washer and it will be fine.)<br />
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6) Wash the dish with soap and water and dry it.<br />
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7) Check and make sure all the stickies are off.<br />
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8) If not, use the rag and alcohol again and repeat steps 5-7.<br />
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And there you go! A label-less dish!<br />
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Praying you have faith, hope, and love always,<br />
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Rachel</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2310677167831792181.post-29852493591692663932013-06-19T11:37:00.003-05:002013-06-19T11:37:40.615-05:00Join the Tyndale reading program<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Join the Tyndale rewards program by reading books and filling out surveys. I have already gotten several free items through the program.<br />
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Praying you have faith, hope, and love always,<br />
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Rachel</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2310677167831792181.post-41951292279979757672013-05-27T08:17:00.002-05:002013-05-27T08:26:06.886-05:003 Ingredient Refried Bean Dip Without An Oven<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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So I tried to go natural in my quest to eat more iron to make sure I was getting sufficient iron while needing a snack to eat during a movie I was hosting. I bought a can of refried beans and was going to eat them plain, then realized I didn't want that to work. So, I came up with homemade refried bean dip and chips. And the whole snack including chips was under $4, because you aren't using a whole thing of shredded cheese or sour cream, and they have lots of uses!<br />
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Ingredients<br />
1 can of bean dip ($.70)<br />
1/2 cup sour cream (love it) ($3 per container)<br />
Shredded cheese (to taste) ($3 per bag)<br />
Tortilla chips ($2/bag)<br />
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Turn on the stove, open the can, and pour it into the pan. Heat the bean dip until warm on the stove. Stir it frequently to avoid it sticking to the pan.<br />
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Add in shredded cheese, stirring it in to melt it. I put in 2-3 handfuls because I am a person who likes cheese.<br />
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Make sure it's warm, but not hot. Put it into a serving dish and spread sour cream on top of it, and you can sprinkle more cheese on it.<br />
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Voila! You have homemade bean dip in three ingredients. Now get that bag of tortilla chips and start the movie.<br />
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Beat that, $8 movie theater popcorn!<br />
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Praying you have faith, hope, and love always,<br />
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Rachel</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2310677167831792181.post-45211927322578464342013-05-25T08:02:00.004-05:002013-05-25T08:02:44.146-05:00Remember<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Wow! Divinely lead Bible study. Lately I've been studying and praying about remembering - just in general, nothing specific.<br />
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I know that the Lord has said, "Remember me, remember the good things I have done." I know some remembering is good and some is bad. Isaiah 43:8 in the amplified Bible was where the Lord led me first. "Do not [earnestly] remember the former things; neither consider the things of old." I thought, Okay, God, we shouldn't think ALL THE TIME about our past sinful lives, i.e, remembering the verse in Colossians, "casting off the OLD man," that surely isn't healthy, it's depressing to think of all the things we did or were capable of doing before You saved us.<br />
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Then I said, So what DO we remember? He then led me to Isaiah 44:21-22. "Remember these things earnestly, O Jacob, O Israel, for you are My Servant. I formed you, you are my servant; O Israel, you shall not be forgotten by Me. I have blotted out like a thick cloud your transgressions, and like a cloud your sins. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you." It's all listed in Isaiah 44, throughout the chapter, what He is referring to. It's interesting to note that first He lists Jacob, the symbol of rebellion of sorts, for Jacob was a cheat before he was Israel, were as a sinful people, and Israel together. Then, after that, in the next sentence, He only mentions Israel - what is referred to as the symbol of salvation, of sorts. So their former self, their Jacob self, was cast off, much like our old man is cast off. It was replaced by their Israel self, their saved self, which is then put on.<br />
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Now, that's just one instance in the Bible where we're told what to remember, but I LOVE it when our savior and true love LEADS the Bible study and you can just see His hand and knowledge and revelation all over it. He hears us and turns His ear to our voices when we seek after Him, and live for Him always. He was totally answering my questions in real time, so to speak!!<br />
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Praying you have faith, hope, and love always,<br />
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Rachel</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2310677167831792181.post-23169905317221678922013-04-29T14:20:00.000-05:002013-04-29T14:20:21.545-05:00How to journal, and the difference between journals and diaries<br />
I think some people get confused between a journal and a diary.<br />
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A journal is a daily record of events and businesses, or, it's a newspaper or publication. Basically, journals keep track of events and business activities. They do not have to kept up daily.<br />
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Journals are not about your private thoughts. A diary, on the other hand, is private, records your thoughts, and you write in it daily. Men can have diaries as well as women. They're usually handwritten, although there has been a move to electronic diaries. However, in my experience, diaries are more personal, useful, and therapeutic when handwritten. This is where you put your thoughts, experiences, and sometimes thoughts on current events - like Facebook, only far more private. Since it's private, you can be far more open, sharing things you would not want or feel comfortable sharing with anyone else. You can write about crushes, about your perceptions of people, your personality, and your fears. People don't usually share their diaries with other people, or if they do they share them with a few close friends and family.<br />
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As for journals, not diaries, there are many different kinds.<br />
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<b>You can have a budget journal.</b><br />
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You write down everything you spend and what you spent it on. For instance, if you bought food at a store, you write down how much you spent, when, and whether or not you charged it or used cash or check. You can also start with an amount and then subtract what you spend and add from there.<br />
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<b>You can have an idea journal.</b><br />
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If you get so many ideas and thoughts about things, like if you are a writer and have story ideas, or you are an inventor, you can write down the ideas you come up with when you come up with them, so you don't forget them and can look back at them.<br />
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<b>You can have a prayer journal. </b><br />
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What does a prayer journal look like? It can be a regular notebook or a special book you buy. I just use a small spiral notebook. I wrote down the word "prayers" on one side, and flipped it over and wrote "answers" on the other side. This is a structure I prefer.<br />
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1) Write down your prayers. This can be like a list, or on one page, or however you want to form it.<br />
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2) Then you begin to pray about it outloud and in your mind, silently.<br />
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3) Flip the book over. Write down the answer when you receive it.<br />
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The good thing about this is that eventually your prayers and answers will meet - in the records. You also have a record of prayers you have and had, and answers, so when you are feeling discouraged you can look back and see how big our God is. I didn't come up with this on my own, though. My friend told me about it. I love mine.<br />
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<b>You can have a Bibly study journal. </b><br />
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What does a Bible study journal look like? It can be a notebook, a book, or anything with paper. This is a record of what you spend time reading in the Bible - it can be a passage of any length; it can be one verse or a book. This can also be an electronic journal, or you can create it as a blog or website if you want to share it with others.<br />
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1) Date it.<br />
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2) Write the scripture down.<br />
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3) Pray it.<br />
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4) Write down your thoughts and what God reveals to you.<br />
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I have attached another option for a Bible study journal. I had to recreate it but it is not an original creation of mine. It's a piece of paper that you print out and write in. Then you can file them away in a binder, folder, or other kind of container. You can do it online and save it in an electronic file, as well. You write the date, the Scripture, and there's a column for tasks (things you think of you need to do while you're reading - you don't stop to do them, you write them down to do later). There's also a section for further study, which are Scriptures or ideas or topics God gives you to look into some other day. If you want a PDF version, you can email or comment here and I will email you a PDF file, or you can recreate it yourself.<br />
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Praying you have faith, hope, and love always,<br />
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RachelUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2310677167831792181.post-85737718248000339332013-02-26T10:12:00.003-06:002013-02-26T10:13:56.788-06:00The first song is always the most difficult<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The first song for the band I'll never be in. I'm really okay with it, but I still wanted to share this.<br />
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The Title Doesn't Matter, It's What the Lyrics Say That Does<br />
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People out there<br />
they like to dance,<br />
they like to write,<br />
they like to sing.<br />
Some lack talent.<br />
Some are decent.<br />
It doesn't matter where<br />
you are at now.<br />
You can do something.<br />
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They have talents<br />
They are pretty good<br />
But they use them<br />
For all the wrong things<br />
Gaining glory,<br />
Selfish ambition,<br />
Feeding their pride,<br />
Exalting no one<br />
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Funneling hurt<br />
Hiding their pain<br />
Behind smiles<br />
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Behind broken masks,<br />
you get a glimpse,<br />
the pain they can't hide<br />
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Talk a big talk,<br />
No good counselor<br />
Lacking purpose<br />
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Funneling hurt<br />
Hiding their pain<br />
Behind smiles<br />
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Behind broken masks,<br />
you get a glimpse,<br />
the pain they can't hide<br />
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Talk a big talk,<br />
No good counselor<br />
Lacking purpose<br />
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If you have talent,<br />
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if you wish you did,<br />
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if you have none,<br />
take some advice now,<br />
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find the Creator,<br />
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he'll help you out,<br />
he'll remove the pain<br />
replace it with hope<br />
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Funneling hurt<br />
Hiding their pain<br />
Behind smiles<br />
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Behind broken masks,<br />
you get a glimpse,<br />
the pain they can't hide<br />
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Talk a big talk,<br />
No good counselor<br />
Lacking purpose<br />
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Then you will receive<br />
houses of stone,<br />
glory that stands alone,<br />
A family,<br />
a brother, a friend<br />
A counselor,<br />
who will never leave<br />
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Praying you have faith, hope, and love always,<br />
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Rachel</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2310677167831792181.post-32910106587078533532013-02-25T11:31:00.000-06:002013-02-26T11:31:44.632-06:00"I still believe" is an excellent book<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Jeremy Camp's new book, "I Still Believe," who also has an excellent song by the same name, was just released this February.<br />
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I was excited to pick it up, and for good reason!<br />
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This book is powerful, and mind blowing. If you ever wanted to get inspired, as well as find out why he wrote songs he wrote, this book tells it. Like I said, the title is inspired by what I think is one of his absolute best songs.<br />
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He may be attractive, but he's also spiritually attractive and alive. This book teaches that even though we all have struggles in life, we can overcome them, with the help of the Lord.<br />
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I still believe in Jeremy Camp's music, and I still believe in God.<br />
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Praying you have faith, hope, and love always,<br />
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Rachel</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2310677167831792181.post-50932967305643378752013-02-25T09:31:00.001-06:002013-02-25T09:31:11.221-06:00Heartbeat - a poemI love you, God<br />
Sometimes I feel<br />
this nameless thing.<br />
Not emotion<br />
Like it, I guess<br />
Jesus, you live<br />
alive and well -<br />
In our hearts, souls<br />
in our bodies<br />
with us, not us;<br />
You change us, Lord,<br />
you fill our hearts,<br />
you meet our needs:<br />
you supply us<br />
identity -<br />
Who we are Lord -<br />
A child of you,<br />
Child of a king,<br />
A royal priest<br />
You supply us<br />
belonging, Lord<br />
God, you choose us;<br />
Lives like vapors<br />
you have given<br />
to each of us;<br />
Then we receive<br />
eternity<br />
good or bad;<br />
Glory to you<br />
Honor to you<br />
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Praying you have faith, hope, and love always,<br />
<br />
Rachel<br />
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To my Lord and Savior and Daddy GodUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2310677167831792181.post-522457460739045772013-02-24T11:36:00.000-06:002013-02-26T11:41:50.683-06:00Jesus was more than a carpenter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now being re-released, <i>More Than a Carpenter,</i> is published by former skeptic now turned Christian Josh McDowell and his son Sean. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They examine the evidence of Christ, and make a case for it, much like Lee Strobel's famous and fantastic <i>A Case for Christ</i> series. Of course, we all know that God never loses in any battle, so...you can guess the end result. Still, this can help you share your beliefs with that atheist, or that family member who just can't seem to get it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you've ever wondered about whether Christ is really who he says he is, and if God exists, this book is for you.</span></div>
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Praying you have faith, hope, and love always,<br />
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Rachel</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2310677167831792181.post-87618893575770059792013-01-22T19:39:00.000-06:002013-01-22T19:39:23.044-06:00Join the Tyndale reading programGet free stuff, read, and share your opinion. Join the Tyndale reading program. <br />
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Praying you have faith, hope, and love always,<br />
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RachelUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2310677167831792181.post-13361199809466081032013-01-20T11:46:00.001-06:002013-01-20T11:46:38.522-06:00My first post from my new phoneHello! This is my first mobile post ever. I just joined the cult of Apple, i.e. I got an iPhone. Expect more blogging from me! I am reading through Genesis so expect some posting about that, too. I love Genesis, the beginning. God and Christ is everywhere in it. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2310677167831792181.post-76442199284653682312012-12-11T14:16:00.000-06:002012-12-10T14:20:57.393-06:00TV quotes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b><i>CSI</i></b></span><br />
Sarah: Now I know why Doodles drank.<br />
Grissom: We solve these cases regardless of race, color, creed, or bubblegum flavor!<br />
Ray: Sometimes when God closes a door, Satan opens a window.<br />
<b>*Sneaking in any way possible</b> <br />
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<b>The Mentalist</b><br />
Kristina: I can’t get a clear reading.<br />
Jane: What are you using? Dial-up?<br />
<b>*I don't miss dial up at all.</b> <br />
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<b><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i>Once Upon a Time</i></span></b><br />
How’s the book supposed to help?<br />
What do you think stories are for?<br />
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Where are we going?<br />
Somewhere horrible. Absolutely horrible. A place where the only happy ending will be mine.<br />
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Grumpy: Grumpy.<br />
Snow: I’m not grumpy, I’m focused.<br />
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b><i>Primeval</i></b></span><br />
Burton: Not since man first walked on the moon has humanity been so delicately poised on the threshold of a new dawn!<br />
Lester: Does dawn have a threshold, exactly?<br />
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Shared from https://agoldoffish.wordpress.com/tv-quotes/ <br />
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Praying you have faith, hope, and love always,<br />
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Rachel</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2310677167831792181.post-50206712589706252222012-12-11T11:22:00.001-06:002012-12-11T11:22:20.037-06:00Join Tyndale reading program<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I've already gotten some free stuff - likes Bibles. It's so cool. It's free to sign up. All you do is read and join and you get counted. Follow this link to Tyndale Rewards, join the program, read, and get free stuff! Follow the link and get 25 additional points when you sign up!<br />
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Praying you have faith, hope, and love always,<br />
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Criminal Minds quotes</h1>
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 1 Episode 1 <em>Extreme Aggressor</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Joseph Conrad said, “The belief in a
supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite
capable of every wickedness.”<br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Emerson said, “All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.”<br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Winston Churchill said, “The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see.”<br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Nietzsche once said, “When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 1 Episode 2 <em>Compulsion</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Faulkner once said, “Don’t bother just to be
better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.”<br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: James Reese once said, “There are certain
clues at a crime scene which, by their very nature, do not lend
themselves to being collected or examined. How does one collect love,
rage, hatred, fear…? These are things that we’re trained to look for.”<br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Einstein once said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited; imagination encircles the world.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 1 Episode 3 <em>Won’t Get Fooled Again</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Samuel Johnson wrote, “Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 1 Episode 4 <em>Plain Sight</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: French poet Jacques Rigaut said, “Don’t
forget that I cannot see myself, that my role is limited to being the
one who looks in the mirror.”<br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Rose Kennedy once said, “Birds sing after a
storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight
remains to them?”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 1 Episode 5 <em>Broken Mirror</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Euripides said, “When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.”<br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Euripides said, “When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 1 Episode 6 <em>L.D.S.K.</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Nietzsche wrote, “The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.”<br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: Shakespeare wrote, “Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 1 Episode 7 <em>The Fox</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Dr. Thomas Fuller – “With foxes we must play the fox.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 1 Episode 8 <em>Natural Born Killer</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Hemingway wrote, “There is no hunting like
the hunting of man; and those who have hunted armed men long enough and
liked it never really care for anything else.”<br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Carl Jung said, “The healthy man does not torture others. Generally, it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 1 Episode 9 <em>Derailed</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Robert Oxton Bolt once wrote, “A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.”<br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: Albert Einstein asked, “The question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I or the others crazy?”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 1 Episode 10 <em>The Popular Kids</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Sir Peter Ustinov said, “Unfortunately, a super abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.”<br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Playwright Eugene Ionesco said, “Ideology separates us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 1 Episode 11 <em>Blood Hungry</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Harriet Beecher Stowe once said “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 1 Episode 12 <em>What Fresh Hell?</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: “The poet, W. H. Auden wrote, ‘Evil is unspectacular, and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our table.’”<br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: “Measure not the work until the day’s out and the labor done.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 1 Episode 13 <em>Poison</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Roman philosopher Lucretius said, “What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.”<br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Confucius once said, “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 1 Episode 14 <em>Riding the Lightning</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed. Genesis 9:6.<br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Albert Pine said, “What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 1 Episode 15 <em>Unfinished Business</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Norman Maclean wrote, “It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.”<br />
<strong>Elle</strong>: Abraham Lincoln once said, “In the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 1 Episode 16 <em>The Tribe</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: Nietzsche wrote, “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 1 Episode 17 <em>A Real Rain</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: W. H. Auden said, “Murder is unique in that
it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place
of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness.”<br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Gandhi said, “Better to be violent if
there’s violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence
to cover impotence.”<br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: Gandhi also said, “I object to violence
because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The
evil it does is permanent.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 1 Episode 18 <em>Somebody’s Watching</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Diane Arbus once said, “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.”<br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Bernard Shaw once said, “An American has no
sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such
thing in the country.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 1 Episode 19 <em>Machismo</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: Anthony Brandt wrote, “Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.”<br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: Mexican proverb: “The house does not rest on the ground, but upon a woman.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 1 Episode 20<em> Charm and Harm</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: The French philosopher Voltaire wrote, “There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.”<br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: The author François de la Rochefoucauld
wrote, “We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the
end we become disguised to ourselves.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 1 Episode 21 <em>Secrets and Lies</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Albert Einstein said, “Whoever undertakes to
set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is
shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”<br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: George Orwell said, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 1 Episode 22 <em>The Fisher King (1)</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Writer Elbert Hubbard said, “No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 2 Episode 1<em> The Fisher King (2)</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: “The defects and faults of the mind are like
wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal
them up, still there will be a scar left behind.” French writer
François de la Rochefoucauld.<br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: “It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I
do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its
sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is
never gone.” Rose Kennedy.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 2 Episode 2 <em>P911</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer said “The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 2 Episode 3 <em>The Perfect Storm</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Mark Twain wrote “Of all the animals, man is
the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for
the pleasure of doing it.”<br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: Philosopher Kahlil Gibran wrote “Out of
suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters
are seared with scars.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 2 Episode 4 <em>Psychodrama</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” Oscar Wilde.<br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone,” Milan Kundera.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 2 Episode 5 <em>Aftermath</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Helen Keller once said “Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 2 Episode 6 <em>The Boogeyman</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: Plato wrote “We can easily forgive a child
who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are
afraid of the light.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 2 Episode 7<em> North Mammon</em></span><br />
<strong>JJ</strong>: Legendary basketball coach John Wooden said: “It’s not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it.”<br />
<strong>JJ</strong>: “The ultimate choice for a man, in as much as he
is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or
to hate.” Erich Fromm.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 2 Episode 8 <em>Empty Planet</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Robespierre wrote “Crime butchers innocence
to secure a prize, and innocence struggles with all its might against
the attempts of crime.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 2 Episode 9 <em>The Last Word</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: Elbert Hubbard once wrote “If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.”<br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: Mahatma Gandhi once said “All through
history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can
seem invincible, but in the end they always fall, always.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 2 Episode 10 <em>Lessons Learned</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Dale Turner mused “Some of the best lessons
are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom of
the future.”<br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Ralph Waldo Emerson said “In order to learn the important lessons in life, one must, each day, surmount a fear.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 2 Episode 11 <em>Sex, Birth, Death</em></span><br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: T.S. Eliot wrote “Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow.”<br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: T.S. Eliot wrote “Between the desire and the
spasm, between the potency and the existence, between the essence and
the descent, falls the shadow. This is the way the world ends.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 2 Episode 12 <em>Profiler, Profiled</em></span><br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: “All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That’s in the nature of secrets.” Writer Cory Doctorow.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 2 Episode 13<em> No Way Out</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Aristotle said, “Evil brings men together.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 2 Episode 14 <em>The Big Game</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Condemned murderer Perry Smith said of his
victims, the Clutter family: “I didn’t have anything against them and
they never did anything wrong to me, the way other people have all my
life. Maybe they’re just the ones who have to pay for it.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 2 Episode 15 <em>Revelations</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins.” Ecclesiastes 7:20<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 2 Episode 16 <em>Fear and Loathing</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: “From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.” Socrates.<br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: “The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” Cicero.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 2 Episode 17 <em>Distress </em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: “Our life is made by the death of others.” Leonardo da Vinci.<br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” Thomas Paine.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 2 Episode 18 <em>Jones</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: Robert Kennedy once said “Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 2 Episode 19 <em>Ashes and Dust</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.” John Calvin.<br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: Gandhi said “Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 2 Episode 20 <em>Honor Among Thieves</em></span><br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: An old Russian proverb reminds us, “There can be no good without evil.”<br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: “Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Leo Tolstoy.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 2 Episode 21<em> Open Season</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: “One man’s wilderness is another man’s theme park.” Author unknown.<br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: The British historian James Anthony Froude
once said, “Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to
whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in
itself.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 2 Episode 22 <em>Legacy</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “Of all the preposterous assumptions of
humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor
by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.” Herman Melville<br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world— not even our troubles.” Charles Chaplin.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 2 Episode 23 <em>No Way Out II: The Evilution of Frank</em></span><br />
<strong>Gideon</strong>: “I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their
good intellect.” Oscar Wilde.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 3 Episode 2 <em>In Name and Blood</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: George Washington said, “Let your heart feel for the affliction and distress of everyone.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 3 Episode 3 <em>Scared to Death</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: The Taoist philosopher Lao-tze once wrote,
“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered
himself is mightier still.”<br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “You gain
strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really
stop to look fear in the face; You must do the thing you think you
cannot do.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 3 Episode 4 <em>Children of the Dark</em></span><br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: “In the city, crime is taken as emblematic
of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it’s intimate and
psychological – resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual
soul.” Barbara Ehrenreich.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>Season 3 Episode 5 Seven Seconds</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: Dostoyevsky once said, “Nothing is easier than denouncing the evildoer. Nothing more difficult than understanding him.”<br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: G.K. Chesterton wrote: “Fairy tales do not
tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons
exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 3 Episode 6<em> About Face</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “Now what else is the whole life of
mortals but a sort of comedy, in which the various actors, disguised by
various costumes and masks, walk on and play each one his part, until
the manager waves them off the stage?” Erasmus.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 3 Episode 7 <em>Identity</em></span><br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: “An earthly kingdom cannot exist without
inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some
subjects.” Martin Luther.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 3 Episode 8 <em>Lucky</em></span><br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: “Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters.” Francisco Goya.<br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: “God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.” Thomas Deloney<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 3 Episode 9 <em>Penelope</em></span><br />
<strong>Garcia</strong>: William Shakespeare wrote, “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 3 Episode 10<em> True Night</em></span><br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: “Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.” Author Clive Barker.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 3 Episode 11 <em>Birthright</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotch</strong>: The American poet Anne Sexton once wrote, “It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”<br />
<strong>JJ:</strong> Wordsworth wrote, “A simple child/ That lightly
draws its breath/ And feels its life in every limb/ What should it know
of death?”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 3 Episode 12 <em>3rd Life</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotch</strong>: “No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.” Daisy Bates.<br />
<strong>Hotch</strong>: “It is a wise father that knows his own child.” William Shakespeare.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 3 Episode 13 <em>Limelight</em></span><br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: “I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but
stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon
mortals the greatest evils.” Euripides.<br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: “For we pay a price for everything we get or
take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they
are not to be cheaply won.” Lucy Maud Montgomery.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 3 Episode 14<em> Damaged</em></span><br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: “…Within the core of each of us is the child
we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have
become, who we are, and what we will be.” Neuroscientist Dr. R. Joseph.<br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “There is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.” Arthur Rubinstein.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 3 Episode 15 <em>A Higher Power</em></span><br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: “There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.” – Daniel Webster.<br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: “The most authentic thing about us is our
capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love, and
to be greater than our suffering.” – Ben Okri.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 3 Episode 16<em> Elephant’s Memory</em></span><br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: “A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.” John Steinbeck.<br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: “We cross our bridges when we come to them and
burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a
memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes
watered.” – Tom Stoppard.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 3 Episode 17 <em>In Heat</em></span><br />
<strong>JJ</strong>: “There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.” – George Bernard Shaw.<br />
<strong>JJ</strong>: “If we knew each other’s secrets, what comforts we should find.” – John Churton Collins.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 3 Episode 18 <em>The Crossing</em></span><br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: Author Christian Nestell Bovee once wrote,
“No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as
necessary to our happiness as realities.”<br />
<strong>JJ</strong>: Susan B. Anthony said, “A woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 3 Episode 19 <em>Tabula Rasa</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotch</strong>: “All changes, even the most longed for, have
their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we
must die to one life before we can enter another.” – Anatole France.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 3 Episode 20 <em>Lo-Fi</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotch</strong>: Voltaire said, “The man visited by ecstasies
and visions, who takes dreams for realities, is an enthusiast. The man
who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 4 Episode 1 <em>Mayhem</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotch</strong>: Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. – Ernest Hemingway.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 4 Episode 2 <em>The Angel Maker</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotch</strong>: “We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever. The goal is to create something that will.” Chuck Palahniuk.<br />
<strong>Hotch</strong>: Wendell Berry said, “The past is our
definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape
what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something
better to it.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 4 Episode 3 <em>Minimal Loss</em></span><br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: “To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.” Benjamin Franklin.<br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: “Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it.” Ayn Rand.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 4 Episode 4 <em>Paradise</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotch</strong>: Thomas Fuller wrote, “A fool’s paradise is a wise man’s hell.”<br />
<strong>Hotch</strong>: Roman poet Phaedrus wrote, “Things are not
always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many. The
intelligence of a few, perceives what has been carefully hidden.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 4 Episode 5 <em>Catching Out</em></span><br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: “Plenty sits still. Hunger is a wanderer.” Zulu proverb.<br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: “Beyond the East the sunrise, beyond the
West the sea/ And the East and West the wander-thirst that will not let
me be.” Gerald Gould.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 4 Episode 6 <em>The Instincts</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotch</strong>: “Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind and finds the readiest response.” Amos Bronson Alcott.<br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: “I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.” Bob Dylan.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 4 Episode 7<em> Memoriam</em></span><br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: “What was silent in the father speaks in the
son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.”
Friedrich Nietzsche.<br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: “There is no refuge from memory and remorse in
this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without
repentance.” Gilbert Parker.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 4 Episode 8 <em>Masterpiece</em></span><br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: “Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles…” Mark Twain.<br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: “Man must evolve for all human conflict a
method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The
foundation of such a method is love.” Martin Luther King, Jr.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 4 Episode 9 <em>52 Pickup</em></span><br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: Author Harlan Ellison wrote, “The minute people fall in love, they become liars.”<br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: P. J. O’Rourke wrote, “Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 4 Episode 10 <em>Brothers in Arms</em></span><br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: “We are all brothers under the skin, and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.” Ayn Rand.<br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: “… For he today who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.” William Shakespeare.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 4 Episode 11 <em>Normal</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “Every normal man must be tempted at times
to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.”
H. L. Mencken.<br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: “There’s no tragedy in life like the death of
a child. Things never get back to the way they were.” President Dwight
Eisenhower.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 4 Episode 12 <em>Soul Mates</em></span><br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: “No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are
silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at
every pore.” Sigmund Freud.<br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: British historian C. Northcote Parkinson said, “Delay is the deadliest form of denial.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 4 Episode 13 <em>Bloodline</em></span><br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: Winston Churchill said, “There is no doubt
that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest
virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created,
strengthened and maintained.”<br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: Mario Puzo wrote, “The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 4 Episode 14 <em>Cold Comfort</em></span><br />
<strong>JJ</strong>: “And so, all the night-tide, I lay down by the
side/ Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride. In the sepulchre
there by the sea. In her tomb by the sounding sea.” Edgar Allan Poe.<br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: “For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.” Stuart Chase.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 4 Episode 15 <em>Zoe’s Reprise</em></span><br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: “I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” Albert Einstein.<br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: Austrian novelist Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach wrote, “In youth we learn; in age we understand.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 4 Episode 16 <em>Pleasure is my Business</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “The prostitute is not, as feminists
claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who
controls the sexual channels between nature and culture.” Camille
Paglia.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 4 Episode 17 <em>Demonology</em></span><br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: “He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.” Leonardo da Vinci.<br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: “There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.” James Joyce.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 4 Episode 18 <em>Omnivore</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.” Roman author Publilius Syrus.<br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call destiny.” John Hobbes.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 4 Episode 19<em> House On Fire</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out.” Tennessee Williams.<br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “I have loved to the point of madness;
That which is called madness, That which to me, is the only sensible way
to love.” Françoise Sagan.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 4 Episode 20 <em>Conflicted</em></span><br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: “Light thinks it travels faster than anything
but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the
darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.” Terry
Pratchett.<br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” Stephen King.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 4 Episode 21<em> A Shade of Gray</em></span><br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: Dr. Burton Grebin once said, “To lose a child is to lose a piece of yourself.”<br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: “Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.” Andre Maurois.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 4 Episode 22 <em>The Big Wheel</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.” Francis Bacon.<br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: “No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.” George Chakiris.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 4 Episode 23 <em>Roadkill</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “I’m not sure about automobiles. With all
their speed forward, they may be a step backward in civilization.”
Booth Tarkington.<br />
<strong>JJ</strong>: “The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still, small voice of conscience.” Mahatma Gandhi.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 4 Episode 24 <em>Amplification</em></span><br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: “It will become fine dust over all the land of
Egypt and it will become boils breaking out with sores on man and beast
through all the land of Egypt.” Exodus 9:9.<br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: “Security is mostly a superstition. It does
not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience
it.” Helen Keller.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 4 Episode 25 – 26 <em>To Hell…And Back</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity.” Flannery O’Connor.<br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: Sometimes there are no words, no clever
quotes to neatly sum up what’s happened that day. Sometimes you do
everything right, everything exactly right, and still you feel like you
failed. Did it need to end that way? Could something have been done to
prevent the tragedy in the first place? Eighty-nine murders at the pig
farm, the deaths of Mason and Lucas Turner make 91 lives snuffed out.
Kelly Shane will go home and try to recover, to reconnect with her
family but she’ll never be a child again. William Hightower, who gave
his leg for his country, gave the rest of himself to avenge his sister’s
murder. That makes 93 lives forever altered, not counting family and
friends in a small town in Sarnia, Ontario, who thought monsters didn’t
exist until they learned that they spent their lives with one. And what
about my team? How many more times will they be able to look into the
abyss? How many more times before they won’t ever recover the pieces of
themselves that this job takes? Like I said, sometimes there are no
words or clever quotes to neatly sum up what’s happened that day.<br />
<em><strong>The Reaper: </strong>You should have made a deal. </em><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: Sometimes, the day just…<br />
<em>(Fade to black. A gunshot is heard)</em><br />
<strong>Hotchner:</strong> … ends.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 5 Episode 1 <em>Nameless, Faceless</em></span><br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: “A weak man has doubts before a decision. A strong man has them afterwards.” Karl Kraus.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 5 Episode 2 <em>Haunted</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “One need not be a chamber to be haunted,
one need not to be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material
place.” Emily Dickinson.<br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.” Polybius.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 5 Episode 3 <em>Reckoner</em></span><br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: “Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.” Blaise Pascal.<br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” Abraham Lincoln.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 5 Episode 4 <em>Hopeless</em></span><br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: Kingman Brewster, Jr. said, “There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.”<br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: William Shakespeare wrote, “These violent delights have violent ends.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 5 Episode 5 <em>Cradle to Grave</em></span><br />
<strong>JJ</strong>: Journalist William D. Tammeus wrote, “You don’t
really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a
merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around and why his
parents will always wave back.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 5 Episode 6 <em>The Eyes Have It</em></span><br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: “And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee.” Matthew 5:29.<br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: “Dwell in peace in the home of your own being and the messenger of death will not be able to touch you.” Guru Nanak.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 5 Episode 7 <em>The Performer</em></span><br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: “In all the darkest pages of the malign
supernatural, there is no more terrible tradition than that of the
vampire – a pariah even among demons.” Writer Montague Summers.<br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: Writer Cyril Connolly said, “Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 5 Episode 8 <em>Outfoxed</em></span><br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: “Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it’s an enemy.” Albert Einstein.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 5 Episode 9 <em>100</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “He who fights with monsters might take
care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an
abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” Friedrich Nietzsche.<br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: Poet Haniel Long said, “So much of what is
best in us is bound up in our love of family that it remains the
measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 5 Episode 10 <em>The Slave of Duty</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” Oliver Wendell Holmes.<br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 5 Episode 11 <em>Retaliation</em></span><br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: “Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.” Tacitus<br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: “There is a sacredness in tears. They are
not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of
overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love.” Washington Irving<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 5 Episode 12 <em>The Uncanny Valley</em></span><br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: Peace Pilgrim wrote: “Anything you cannot
relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in
this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our
possessions.”<br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: Isaac Asimov wrote: “In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 5 Episode 13<em> Risky Business</em></span><br />
<strong>JJ</strong>: Mother Teresa said, “Life is a game – play it … Life is too precious, do not destroy it.”<br />
<strong>JJ</strong>: “Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn.” C.S. Lewis<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 5 Episode 14 <em>Parasite</em></span><br />
<strong></strong><strong>Rossi<strong></strong></strong>: “Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.” Sir Walter Scott.<br />
<strong><strong>Prentiss</strong></strong>: “If I am what I have, and if I lose what I have, who, then, am I?” German psychologist Erich Fromm.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 5 Episode 15 <em>Public Enemy</em></span><br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: “When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when his son gives to his father, both cry.” William Shakespeare.<br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: “Show me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy.” F. Scott Fitzgerald.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 5 Episode 16 <em>Mosley Lane</em></span><br />
<strong>JJ</strong>: Emily Dickinson wrote, “Hope is the thing with
feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words,
and never stops at all.”<br />
<strong>JJ</strong>: Nietzsche wrote, “Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 5 Episode 17 <em>Solitary Man</em></span><br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: Christopher Lash said, “Family is a haven in a heartless world.”<br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: Tennessee Williams said, “We’re all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 5 Episode 18 <em>The Fight</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: Mother Teresa said, “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 5 Episode 19 <em>Rite of Passage</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “Many persons have the wrong idea of what
constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” Helen
Keller.<br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: “A lion’s work hours are only when he’s
hungry. Once he’s satisfied, the predator and prey lie peacefully
together.” Chuck Jones.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 5 Episode 20<em> …A Thousand Words</em></span><br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: “A sincere artist tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.” Painter William Dobell.<br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: Gandhi said, “I have seen children
successfully surmount the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to
purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 5 Episode 21 <em>Exit Wounds</em></span><br />
<strong>Garcia</strong>: “Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or
stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the tragedy of
man.” John Morley<br />
<strong>Garcia</strong>: Ralph W. Sockman said, “Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 5 Episode 22 <em>The Internet Is Forever</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” George Bernard Shaw.<br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: “The Internet is the first thing that
humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest
experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.” Eric Schmidt.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 5 Episode 23<em> Our Darkest Hour</em></span><br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote, “And out of the darkness came the hands that reach thro’ nature, moulding men.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 6 Episode 1 <em>The Longest Night</em></span><br />
<strong>JJ</strong>: “A family is a place where minds come in contact
with one another. If these minds love one another, the home will be as
beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony
with one other it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.” The
Buddha.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 6 Episode 2 <em>JJ</em></span><br />
<strong>JJ</strong>: Jean Racine said, “A tragedy need not have blood
and death; it’s enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness
that is the pleasure of tragedy.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 6 Episode 3 <em>Remembrance of Things Past</em></span><br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: Marcel Proust wrote, “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”<br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: Mark Twain wrote, “When I was younger, I
could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. But my
faculties are decaying now, and soon I shall be so that I cannot
remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to
pieces like this, but we all have to do it.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 6 Episode 4 <em>Compromising Positions</em></span><br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: “We all wear masks, and the times comes when we cannot remove them without removing our own skin.” Andre Berthiaume<br />
<strong>Garcia</strong>: Abraham Lincoln said, “Whatever you are, be a good one.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 6 Episode 5 <em>Safe Haven</em></span><br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: “All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.” Mahatma Gandhi.<br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: “But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.” Robert Frost.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 6 Episode 6 <em>Devil’s Night</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: Niccolo Machiavelli wrote, “If an injury
has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need
not be feared.”<br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: Thomas Kempis wrote, “Love feels no
burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its
strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things
lawful for itself, and all things possible.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 6 Episode 7 <em>Middle Man</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “Without heroes, we are all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.” Bernard Malamud<strong></strong><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “The herd seek out the great, not for
their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of
vanity or need.” Napoleon Bonaparte<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 6 Episode 8 <em>Reflection of Desire</em></span><br />
<strong>Garcia</strong>: “Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you,
fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s
something I experience, but that’s not where I live.” Marilyn Monroe<br />
<strong>Garcia</strong>: I believe humanity was born from conflict.
Maybe that’s why in all of us lives a dark side. Some of us embrace it.
Some have no choice. The rest of us fight it. In the end, it’s as
natural as the air we breathe. At some point, we’re forced to face the
truth. Ourselves.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 6 Episode 9 <em>Into the Woods</em></span><br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: Ralph Ellison said, “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.”<br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: Elise Cabot said, “Evil endures a moment’s flush, and then leaves but a burnt out shell.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 6 Episode 10 <em>What Happens at Home</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “When we were children, we used to think
that when we grew up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is
to accept vulnerability… to be alive is to be vulnerable.” Writer
Madeleine L’Engle<br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.” Writer Oscar Wilde<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 6 Episode 11 <em>25 to Life</em></span><br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: “There is no such thing as part freedom.” Nelson Mandela<br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered. The point is to discover them.” Galileo<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 6 Episode 12 <em>Corazón</em></span><br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: “No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.” Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.<br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: “The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” Helen Keller.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 6 Episode 13 <em>The Thirteenth Step</em></span><br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, “What really
raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering
intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.”<br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: William Glasser wrote, “What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 6 Episode 14 <em>Sense Memory</em></span><br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: “Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they are in the game.” Comedian Paul Rodriguez.<br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: “Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.” Novelist Vladimir Nabokov.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 6 Episode 15 <em>Today I Do</em></span><br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: “There’s no chance, no destiny, no fate,
that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a
determined soul.” Ella Wheeler Wilcox<br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: “It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” Sally Kempton<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 6 Episode 16 <em>Coda</em></span><br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: “Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, but tomorrow is too often a repetition of today.” Author James T. Mccay<br />
<strong>Ian Doyle</strong>: Honore de Balzac once said, “Most people
of action are inclined to fatalism, and most of thought believe in
providence.” Tell me, Emily Prentiss, which do you think you’re gonna
be?<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 6 Episode 17 <em>Valhalla</em></span><br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: Lao Tzu said, “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”<br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: Journalist Dorothea Dix wrote, “Confession
is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its
own punishment in silence.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 6 Episode 18 <em>Lauren</em></span><br />
<strong>JJ</strong>: Psychoanalyst Walter Langer wrote, “People will
believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it
frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it.”<br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: “The secret to getting away with lying is
believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself, even
moreso than lying to another.” Author Elizabeth Bear.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 6 Episode 19 <em>With Friends Like These…</em></span><br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: Lizette Reese said, “The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly truth comes by and puts them out.”<br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: Siddhartha Buddha said, “It is not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 6 Episode 20 <em>Hanley Waters</em></span><br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: Poet Antonio Porchia wrote, “Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 6 Episode 21 <em>The Stranger</em></span><br />
<strong>Seaver</strong>: “Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false naming of real events.” Adrienne Rich<br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: “Sometimes human places create inhuman monsters.” Stephen King.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 6 Episode 22<em> Out of the Light</em></span><br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: Agathon said, “Of this alone, even God is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.”<br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: Doménico Cieri Estrada wrote, “Bring the past only if you’re going to build from it.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 6 Episode 23<em> Big Sea</em></span><br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: “The sea has never been friendly to man. At most, it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.” Joseph Conrad<br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: “We are tied to the ocean. And when we go
back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch, we are going back
from whence we came.” John F. Kennedy<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 6 Episode 24 <em>Supply & Demand</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotchner</strong>: Thomas Hardy said, “And yet to every bad there’s a worse.”<br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: “What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do.” Aristotle.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 7 Episode 1 <em>It Takes a Village</em></span><br />
<strong>JJ</strong>: Queen Elizabeth I said, “The past cannot be cured.”<br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: “I do solemnly swear that I will support
and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies,
foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the
same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation
or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge
the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
FBI oath of office.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 7 Episode 2 <em>Proof</em></span><br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: “If it is a miracle, any sort of evidence will answer. But if it is a fact, proof is necessary.” Mark Twain<br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: Scott Adams wrote, “Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 7 Episode 3 <em>Dorado Falls</em></span><br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt<br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: “We’re born alone, we live alone, we die
alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion
for the moment that we’re not alone.” Orson Welles<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 7 Episode 4 <em>Painless</em></span><br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: “You may leave school, but it never leaves you.” Andy Partridge<br />
<strong>Hotch</strong>: “Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” Kahlil Gibran<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 7 Episode 5 <em>From Childhood’s Hour</em></span><br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: “From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw.” Edgar Allen Poe.<br />
<strong>Rossi:</strong> “All things truly wicked start from an innocence.” Ernest Hemingway<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 7 Episode 6 <em>Epilogue</em></span><br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: “To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.” Erich Fromm.<br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: “The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.” Mary Catherine Bateson.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 7 Episode 7 <em>There’s No Place Like Home</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotch</strong>: “For the man sound in body and serene of mind
there is no such thing as bad weather, every sky has its beauty, and
storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.”
George Gissing.<br />
<strong>JJ</strong>: “Adversity is like a strong wind. I don’t mean
just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also
tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that
afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might
like to be.” Arthur Golden.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 7 Episode 8<em> Hope</em></span><br />
<strong>Garcia</strong>: “Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.” George Iles.<br />
<strong>Garcia</strong>: We are each on our own journey. Each of
us is on our very own adventure; encountering all kinds of challenges,
and the choices we make on that adventure will shape us as we go; these
choices will stretch us, test us and push us to our limit; and our
adventure will make us stronger then we ever know we could be.” <em>(Thank you, LuLu!)</em><br />
<strong>Garcia</strong>: There’s a quote by my favorite author,
Joseph Campbell, and it goes like this: “Find a place inside where
there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 7 Episode 9 <em>Self-Fulfilling Prophecy</em></span><br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: Morgan: “Things do not change. We change.” Henry David Thoreau.<br />
<strong>Col. Massey</strong>: Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man’s survival.<br />
<strong>Morgan:</strong> Carlos P. Romulo<br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: “Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.” Jean de la Fontaine.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 7 Episode 10 <em>The Bittersweet Science</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotch</strong>: “Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.” Joe Louis<br />
<strong>Hotch</strong>: “Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.” Hermann Hesse<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 7 Episode 11 <em>True Genius</em></span><br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: “Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.” Benjamin Franklin.<br />
<strong>Reid</strong>: “There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.” Dante Alighieri<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 7 Episode 12 <em>Unknown Subject</em></span><br />
<strong>Hotch</strong>: “We do not suffer from the shock of our trauma, but we make out of it just what suits our purposes.” Alfred Adler.<br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: “All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” Henry Ellis<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 7 Episode 13 </span><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Snake Eyes</span></em><br />
<strong>Hotch</strong>: A Chinese proverb says, “At the gambling table, there are no fathers or sons.”<br />
<strong>Rossi</strong>: George Augustus Sala said, “A gambler with a system must be, to a greater or lesser extent, insane.”<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 7 Episode 14 “Closing Time”</span><br />
<strong>Hotch</strong>: “For trust not him that hath once broken faith.” William Shakespeare<br />
<strong>Hotch</strong>: “You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.” Frank Crane<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 7 Episode 15 “A Thin Line”</span><br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: “Equality may perhaps be a right – but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.” Honore de Balzac.<br />
<strong>Prentiss</strong>: “I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for – or against.” Malcolm X.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 7 Episode 16 “A Family Affair”</span><br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: Eckhart Tolle said, “Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.”<br />
<strong>JJ</strong>: “Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.” H. Jackson Brown, Jr.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Season 7 Episode 17 “I Love You, Tommy Brown”</span><strong></strong><br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: “It was once said that love is giving someone the ability to destroy you, but trusting them not to.”<br />
<strong>Morgan</strong>: “For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.” Bo Bennett.<br />
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Praying you have faith, hope, and love always,<br />
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Rachel</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2310677167831792181.post-83933528715170677382012-12-09T14:20:00.000-06:002012-12-10T14:20:47.336-06:00Some movie quotes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><i><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Arsenic and Old Lace</span></i></b><br />
Mortimer Brewster: Insanity runs in my family . . . it practically gallops!<br />
Holy Mackerel!<br />
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<i><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Casablanca</span></b></i><br />
Renault: Oh, there’s no hurry. Tonight he will be at Rick’s. Everybody comes to Rick’s.<br />
Renault: I’ve often speculated on why you don’t return to America.
Did you abscond with the church funds? Did you run off with a senator’s
wife? I like to think that you killed a man – it’s the romantic in me.<br />
Rick: It’s a combination of all three.<br />
And what in heaven’s name brought you to Casablanca.<br />
My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.<br />
Waters? What waters? We’re in the desert.<br />
I was misinformed.<br />
Strasser: What is your nationality?<br />
Rick: I’m a drunkard.<br />
Louis: That makes Richard a citizen of the world.<br />
Rick: There are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn’t advise you to try to invade.<br />
Mr. Leuchtag: Liebchen – ah, sweetness heart, what watch?<br />
Mrs. Leuchtag: Ten watch.<br />
Mr. Leuchtag: Such watch?<br />
Rick: I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray. You wore blue.<br />
Sam: Boss, ain’t you goin’ to bed?<br />
Rick: Not right now.<br />
Ain’t you plannin’ on goin’ to bed in the near future?<br />
No.<br />
You ever goin’ to bed?<br />
<i>No.</i><br />
Well, I ain’t sleepy either.<br />
Rick: Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world she walks into mine.<br />
If you’re not with him, you’ll regret it – maybe not today, maybe not
tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life. … The problems of
three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.<br />
Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects.<br />
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b><i>White Christmas</i></b></span><br />
Phil Davis: When what’s left of you gets around to what’s left to be
gotten, what’s left to be gotten won’t be worth getting, whatever it is
you’ve got left.<br />
Doris: Well how do you like that? Not so much as a “kiss my foot” or “have an apple”.<br />
Bob Wallace: How do you do?<br />
Doris: Mutual, I’m sure.<br />
Bob: Oh, Phil, when are you going to learn that girls like that are a dime a dozen?<br />
Phil: Please, don’t quote me the price when I haven’t got the time.<br />
Phil: In some ways, you’re far superior to my cocker spaniel.<br />
Bob: Miss Haynes, if you’re ever under a falling building and someone
offers to pick you up and carry you to safety, don’t think, don’t
pause, don’t hesitate for a moment, just spit in his eye.<br />
Betty Haynes: What did that mean?<br />
Bob: It means we’re going to Vermont.<br />
Phil: How much is “wow”?<br />
Bob: It’s right in between, uh, “ouch” and “boing”.<br />
Phil: Wow!<br />
Bob: When I figure out what that means I’ll come up with a crushing reply.<br />
General’s Party Guest: How do you do?<br />
Doris: Mutual, I’m sure.<br />
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Praying you have faith, hope, and love always,<br />
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Rachel</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2310677167831792181.post-45483863334734762462012-11-28T23:17:00.002-06:002012-12-01T12:54:12.849-06:00Ruffled Scarves for sell!Hey everyone! I'm making and selling ruffled scarves. I am selling these scarves for $10. Other people who sell these scarves are charging $18 a scarf, but I want to keep the scarves affordable for anyone who wants to use them as Christmas presents or for themselves.<br />
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These scarves are great with all kinds of outfits. <br />
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The scarves can be long, medium, or short. I recommend medium. <br />
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Also, the proceeds from the scarves will go toward my education, since I'm a poor college student.<br />
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Email me your order, which includes length and color, at rmweatherford1s@gmail.com, leave it here, or find me on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rmweatherford1s" target="_blank">Facebook</a>. <br />
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Praying you have faith, hope, and love always,<br />
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RachelUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2310677167831792181.post-63353653077380436722012-11-27T00:21:00.000-06:002012-11-27T00:24:00.905-06:00I love Revolution - there's some depth to it!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So, my roommate and I are just hanging out and I start to look up people involved in the American Revolution. There are a lot of similar names to "Revolution." Samuel Miles (Miles Matheson), President Monroe (Sebastian Monroe) War of 1812, Benjamin Franklin (Ben Matheson), Aaron Burr, Aaron Ogden (Aaron Pittman), Rachel Revere (Rachel Matheson), Grace and Rachel Martin (Grace Beaumont and Rachel Matheson), William Beaumont War of 1812 (Grace Beaumont), The Battle of Charlotte, Charles Lee (Charlie Matheson), Daniel Morgan, Daniel Shays, Daniel F. Bakeman (Danny), Joshua Clayton (Nora Clayton), Margaret Corbin (Maggie is a variation of Margaret), John Neville (Tom Neville Family), Stephen R. Bradley (Bradley Jaffe), Jacob Randall (distant connection to Randall), Jason Russell House (Jason Neville), as for Nathan, Jason's fake name, there a lot of men whose names were Nathan or Nathaniel involved in the Revolutionary War. In fact, every name has something to do with someone who was involved in either the American Revolution (the first war for independence) or the War of 1812 (the second war for independence). Just because the name is used doesn't mean the person is really like that, though. Their name is just used. I think it's more than coincidence. What do you all think? I'm learning so much about the people involved in those times while I did this. I don't even know where the idea came from. Just happened on looking all this up.<br />
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Praying you have faith, hope, and love always,<br />
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Rachel</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2310677167831792181.post-44874518627043087552012-11-13T13:17:00.002-06:002012-11-13T13:17:40.128-06:00'The Crucible' performed at Southeast last week<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.30276104318909347" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The Crucible” was quite engaging. The black walls of the Wendy Kurka Rust Flexible theater made the scenes even more intense. With creepy music playing in the beginning, I knew this was no light-hearted Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dalton Riddle, who played John Proctor, was brilliant as the angry, guilt-stricken adulterer determined to save his wife. He shone forth as the best. We find out quickly that Abigail Williams, played by Sami Gross, is in love with John Proctor, and for some reason, in her twisted rationale, she believes if she gets the other girls to help her accuse Elizabeth Proctor, portrayed by Hannah Lundy, of being a witch and has her hanged, John will marry her. I knew that was absolutely ridiculous, especially once we find out that Abigail is lying about seeing others with the Devil.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She even admits her scheme several times when she declares her love for John. Abigail becomes not only an adulteress, but she’s also a scheming murderer when John rejects her to remain with his wife. This play’s tagline should be: A Woman Scorned. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The play was absolutely gorgeous, and truthfully the acting, especially the actors who played Elizabeth, John, and Abigail, was heart-wrenching. The only part I found unrealistic was that the actress who played Tituba, who is from Barbados, was Asian. I would never have imagined Tituba, a slave, being Asian. The deputy governor was also African-American. These are not historically accurate because, unfortunately, only white men were in charge of the government in the 1600s. Slaves in North America that era were of African descent. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reverend Parris was an overbearing, crabby, greedy man who was never satisfied in life. His daughter was Betty, who was ill in the beginning before she began to accuse people with her cousin Abigail Williams. His part as the accusing, hypocritical reverend was portrayed well.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Danforth had a moment where he couldn’t rise from his seat because his coat was caught in the chair. The coats were long and black - easy to see how they’d be annoying. The costumes, understandably, were all very clean. I was distracted by wondering if they’d really be that clean if they had been around in 1692.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There were two exceptionally well-performed scenes. The midnight scene between John Proctor and his former mistress, Abigail Williams, in which she reveals all her reasons for the accusations, and John tells her to give it up, that they will never be together. He also tells her he will reveal their affair, ruining both of their names, if she does not stop accusing Elizabeth. I could literally feel Abigail’s insane passion and John’s forceful and angry determination to save his wife, especially when he threw Abigail on the ground to make his point.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The scene near the end between John Proctor and his wife made me want to cry, it was so emotional. Elizabeth Proctor struggles to forgive her husband throughout the play for his adultery. The children who accuse her and John of witchcraft want her to get John to confess. When they stare into each other’s eyes I wanted to cry. Love seemed to pour off of them. She tells him to do what he wants, standing there with a straight back as he at first confesses it, then denies it, then is hanged. At the end, Elizabeth, who is saved from being hanged because she is pregnant, says, “He has his goodness. How can I take that away from him?” She stands there straight as a board, sounding as if she’s decided to forgive John. Such the heroine Elizabeth is, and John the tragic hero! </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There were also red lights between each of the scenes. I may be reading into it, but they are probably symbols from the Red Scare of the 1950s, in which many people were accused of being communists by Joseph McCarthy. In fact, when the girls were calling out the names of the accused, Arthur Miller’s name was mentioned as well, a tribute to the play’s author Arthur Miller, who himself was accused.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Misplaced love, a manipulative teenager, an affair, murder, hanging, accusations, betrayal and religious hypocrites against the backdrop of the historical Salem Witch Trials made for a play like something from a Lifetime movie, only better.</span></b></span><br />
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Praying you have faith, hope, and love always,<br />
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RachelUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2310677167831792181.post-32590340046953529402012-11-12T13:16:00.000-06:002012-11-13T13:17:53.203-06:00Revolution Update<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">OK, so I feel I haven't really posted about Revolution in my excitement over Once Upon A Time, which is just so twisted even I don't know quite how I feel about it sometimes.<br /><br />I adore Revolution. My roommate and I watch it together - or we have been watching it together, other than the past couple of weeks, when I've been watching it in Grauel Building at my school, unfortunately. Watching that show in a room of computers is much different than watching it with my roommate in our room.<br /><br />Revolution is pretty clear cut, with hints about the blackout and getting the power back on, and spending half the season on them trying to get Danny back, which is the actually the only motivation of four people.<br /><br />For some reason, being around Charlie and trying to find Danny is making Miles and Nora better people. I guess because it's more than just personal survival, it's about helping someone else now. I've noticed in the opening credits they say they've been waiting for someone to light the way? I'm thinking Charlie is that light. The people who've been hanging around Charlie seem much more charitable and giving.</span><br />
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Praying you have faith, hope, and love always,<br />
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RachelUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2310677167831792181.post-11637310396745021282012-11-11T19:25:00.000-06:002012-11-11T19:25:25.860-06:00Religious aspects of Once Upon A TimeOkay, I'm not saying the show is touting any religious meaning, but I can't ignore the obvious: Prince Charming.<br />
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His name is David, he's the son of a shepherd, he became a king when a man lost his son, who was David's brother, and he's heroic. But he had a tragic flaw: he had a moment when he was married and "cheated" on his wife in this world with Snow, even though she was really his wife in Fairy Tale land. David in the Bible cheated with Bethsheba. They both ended up with the woman they really wanted, I suppose.<br />
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Um, does anyone see parallels with David in the Bible? Katherine could be Michal, the daughter of a king, and Michal was the daughter of King Saul in the Bible. Michal and Katherine were both whiny and high maintenance, and eventually left their husbands (Katherine sort of left David). King George wants to destroy David's reputation in the eyes of the people in their kingdom, just like King Saul was jealous of how the people of Israel viewed David.<br />
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Emma, David's daughter, is meant to save the fairy tale characters from their curse, inflicted on the world by a clever snake (Rumple) who used a woman (Regina) to do it.<br />
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David's descendant, Jesus, was meant to save humanity from their curse, inflicted on the world by a clever snake (Satan) who used a woman (Eve) and a man (Adam) to do it.<br />
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Fairy tales were always meant to be like morality tales. I guess you just can't take the symbolic meaning out of fairy tales!<br />
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Praying you have faith, hope, and love always,<br />
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RachelUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2310677167831792181.post-61428801222993109572012-11-10T10:39:00.000-06:002012-11-13T13:18:15.071-06:00Stand Up Stand Up<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Yes, we have running water, electricity, and food. But think about it. People don't just give us those things. We work hard, sometimes really hard, and earn money and buy them. We have to wake up everyday, get ready, go to work, show up on time, do what we're supposed to do, and not complain. We have to be friendly and helpful and supportive, but confident and determined. We have to work as a team. People who do that get a job and earn money and provide for themselves and their families.<br />
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Yes, we should help each other as human beings and brothers and sisters, but it's not just luck that we have running water, electricity, and food. Sometimes it is; some people are born into a family where someone's worked hard or done something to earn enough money to last forever, or what seems like forever. But most of us work hard, be faithful, do our duty, and go home to a warm (or cold, depending on the time of year) house and family. We need to stop glamorizing luck and realizing it's partial luck, mostly hard work.<br />
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Same thing as a country. People in America have had to work hard to be successful, it doesn't just come to us, it is putting our needs and desires into action - and on hold sometimes - and craving out something beautiful and powerful. We sacrifice, we get involved, we stand up. Our leaders care somewhat about the people they're serving, and that's why we are where we are. Pick people who will care about the masses. Success will arrive then. Be willing to stand up for what's right, no matter what - even if you're standing alone.<br />
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Praying you have faith, hope, and love always,<br />
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Rachel</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2310677167831792181.post-43222472518438779772012-11-08T22:29:00.000-06:002012-11-08T23:12:40.642-06:00Tony LaRussa<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">So I got to meet good old Tony LaRussa, the former manager for the St. Louis Cardinals, at a press conference, the very first official press conference I ever got to attend. Hands-on, I finally know how to cover a press conference! Haha. Joanna Shaver, who coordinates all the speakers, brought him out of the back room. I wish I could have gotten a picture with him! I have one of Michael J. Fox but not him. I know he talked about his pet rescue operation and gave an awesome quote on leadership skills and developing them, which I'll update this post with the exact quotes. He seemed very nervous and freaked out by the press conference, but at least he showed up, unlike Mr. Bill Nye the Science Guy. I wasn't at that one, though, but no way would I miss <i>this</i> one. He was like super late but we supposedly got all 15 minutes with him, even though I'm suspicious as to whether we really did or not. He had beautiful rings, three of them. They were so shiny and sparkly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Of course, Dobbins had a beautiful speech welcoming La Russa to the stage and how glad Southeast was La Russa was here, and how 100 percent of the profits of the selling of tickets go to the endowed scholarship foundation to fund students' scholarship. La Russa even called the president by his first name, Ken, and called him out, asking him where to send people with questions. Dobbins looked flabbergasted, but recovered quickly</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I also attended his actual event, with his speech. The man is super long-winded with his stories! Nonetheless, I was interested. He has to be my favorite speaker. For being old, he is a rather goodlooking man. I bet he was a lady killer in his glory years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Now I'm sure that he always says this, but he swore that the Cardinals were his favorites to manage. He also confirmed he and Chris Carpenter were close, and truthfully, I'd say they were probably the closest. I'm sure it's a friendship and a father-son relationship, as Carpenter is 37 and LaRussa is 68. When he first started to talk about Chris and how close they were, his eyes sort of shot to the right like he was sorry he'd just admitted it. Why would he be sorry, though? Oh well. He, for a moment, had a thoughtful expression on his face. Some people would try to make it seem creepy, but it really isn't. Everyone sort of finds someone to mentor or be mentored from. Best friends can be years apart. It's not the years that matter, it's how much time you spend together and what you both get from the relationship.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I'll update this later. He didn't say much, but what he said was powerful. Trust, respect and character were the core of his speech, and expounding on managing a team. I think the man had some insecurities. Everyone does, even the most put together people. He was pretty cocky and arrogant, as if he knew he was the coolest kid on the block (he really is). Really, the man shouldn't be so nervous. He's a very wonderful speaker, actually. I'll post a picture of him, too - when I get it updated. He was so inspirational. Here's one of them, talking about dealing with pressure, which he really emphasized in his speech. I took lots of notes.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"I looked at each player as if he were the pressure, go-to guy in any situation."</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I really wish I had been on La Russa's team. I really do.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"Make pressure your friend," La Russa said. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Pressure is a tough subject to tackle. Some people are calm and cool under pressure, some people get excited and make mistakes, he pointed out. Personally, I want to be in the latter category.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"We made pressure our friend on my teams. We prepared for situations over and over, which reduces the pressure the players perform under. I also taught players to think of the process, not the result. When David Freese went to the plate in Game 6, I can tell you he was only looking to have a good at-bat, not hitting a home run. He was able to totally tune out the pressure."</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He said that everyone could be the top of their field, if they had respect, character, and trust. What will I remember from La Russa's speech? Prepare ahead of time. Keep practicing, eventually you'll get it right. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Make pressure your friend. Just like from Ryan Blair the most life changing truth for me: Don't let anyone steal your milk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He had a very long Question and Answer forum. What did he tell everyone about asking questions? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"No guts, no glory."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I love that man.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">People asked strange questions and almost everyone prefaced it with, "I love you, the Cardinals, or I'm from St. Louis." Of course you're from St. Louis - you're at Southeast and attending an event with Tony LaRussa, who insisted we call him Tony, and 40 percent of the students are St. Louis transplants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I got guts and glory. I love it. I love his voice too. It's a perfect voice, sharp and focused, gravelly and cool. When he talked, you knew he wasn't talking out of his butt. He had something to say. He was serious. He wasn't blowing out hot air to make himself look better. He <i>looked</i> good already. He was good. And he was a person to look up to, to admire. He made jokes, some rather funny ones, considering he said he didn't think he was a very funny guy. OK, he shouldn't become a standup comedian by any means, but he wasn't too bad. He kept it humorous yet serious. I could tell he was used to managing rowdy guys and inspiring people. "Every year I get older and the players get younger." It was a joke I heard from my American Literature professor before he retired. He made it work, though, and I laughed. It's really funny.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He really cared about students, too, and tried to encourage us with his words, telling us he hoped we'd get something out of it to carry with us. At least he knew his audience, considering our student fees brought him here. They always have to talk about being leaders at the Speakers' Series thing. I think I agree with my uncle when he says a lot of successful people feel inadequate on college campuses and around college-educated people because they haven't gone to the university. It's hard to believe, but with my degrees, I'll technically be more educated than people three times my age. They have way more experience than me, though, but they are older and have been around a lot longer than me. La Russa is 46 years older than me. I can't believe it!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I wanted to ask him, after his I'm-old comment, how old he thought I was - I love asking people that question because everyone thinks I'm like 16. He probably would have said the same thing. I also should have asked if baseball is rigged. Shoot. I just know it is. He dodged questions he didn't want to answer, though, and he'd have dodged that one no doubt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The great question: If I'm a blogger, does that count as being a journalist? Some people think it does, others don't. What do you think? Does blogging count?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Praying you have faith, hope, and love always,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Rachel</span></div>
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Attention, please.<br />
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Henry is most likely half-human, half-fairy tale creature.<br />
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We can now assume that Mysterious Man, aka Neil Cassidy, will show up in Storybrooke someday for Emma. How delicious! I can see that scene playing out in my head already, can't wait to see what the writers come up with! Someone actually sent him a postcard letting him know that the curse was broken. Drama, please!<br />
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August promised to do it, but remember he was wooden when the curse was broken, and we never saw him un-wooden.<br />
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Plus, it was delivered via a white dove. August doesn't deal with white doves, does he? Wasn't Regina the one who threw the white dove out the window with a message? Correct me if I'm wrong, please.<br />
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Okay, my question is, since the show wants to go on that line of thinking, <i>how </i>did Henry get to Storybrooke? Gold can't leave, none of them can leave other than Henry, Emma, and August. Mr. Mysterious doesn't seem to know about Henry, so he's out of the question. Emma didn't drop Henry off. That leaves August. Whoosh! Which quite possibly means that August had to deal with Mr. Gold, aka Rumple, at some point. Yum!<br />
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I can't believe Emma abandoned Hook after saving him from the giant. I really can't. I suspect that means Emma's now incurred Hook's wrath, too. Hook may have been her best shot for defending the group against Cora - if he was trustworthy, which he probably isn't.<br />
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Seriously! Emma was caught stealing WATCHES! No way. NOT what I was expecting. Sheesh. Watches. Seriously?<br />
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Explains Mr. Mysterious' watch collection. It does NOT explain how he had a picture of the clock from Storybrooke in his apartment, though. Yet it relates to the overall theme of the story, time.<br />
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Did anyone notice that once those two hoodlums (Emma and Mr. Mysterious) got away from each other, their lives got better? Mr. Mysterious left Canada and moved to New York City, and Emma went to Boston. Mr. Mysterious actually loved Emma, and Emma believes - present tense because she still does - he betrayed her (can we say that the person who called on Emma was August, that snake, and can we also say that money probably didn't get to Emma).<br />
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Now who gave her the keys? I'm guessing Mr. Mysterious just couldn't stay away. Emma seemed to understand the symbol behind it. Did you see her face? Of course, Emma just found out she was pregnant and in prison. NOT a great combination. The guard didn't seem overly upset. Am I reading into her comment? "Well, when you get out, you'll have a car. And a baby." Emma got eleven months. Was she implying Emma was going to have the baby in prison, and get out soon after? Maybe Mr. Mysterious isn't really Henry's father - we don't know what kind of hanky-panky Emma was up to between the time she was arrested and the time <i>we </i>found out she was pregnant. Hurt people do all kinds of crazy stuff.<br />
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Well, truthfully, while I knew it was a long shot that Mr. Mysterious was actually Bae, I was quite disappointed. I want to re-meet Bae and see how he likes a world without magic (we're assuming it <i>is</i> this world he's in).<br />
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Did anyone notice that David seemed to know what Henry's dream was about? Snow seemed to know exactly what Aurora was dreaming about, too, and didn't look like she believed her own words about the nightmares going away.<br />
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Yup. Everyone who is given a dream spell all dream the same creepy nightmare - apparently the person staring at them is a person of the opposite sex, though. Aurora saw a man and Henry saw a woman. Ahem! Am I the only one assuming that the nightmare is really another world accessed through being given a sleeping potion? David didn't have the same nightmare because he was in acoma, not sleeping under a sleep potion/poisoning (Henry and Snow=apple, Aurora=spinning wheel, we're assuming). Soooo creepy! Just what kinds of worlds are there?<br />
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This episode opened more doors. I hope we will actually get an ending. Then again, the creators sure know how to drag something out. If they'll all dead or sleeping, Ima be pissed.<br />
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Did I miss anything from this episode?<br />
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Praying you have faith, hope, and love always,<br />
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Rachel</div>
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