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I must try desperately to absorb all information I can about the Middle East. I want to excel. I want to speak articulately about the politics of the Middle East and its religion. Amanda Lindhout
Politics Religion Speak Try Desperately East Must About Excel Absorb Middle Want Middle East Information
I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand. Amanda Lindhout
War People Long Other Must Thrill Only Make Understand Middle Being
What a woman is taught, she shares with her family. Amanda Lindhout
Family Woman Shares She Taught Her
Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani have made the decision to feed 250,000 victims of the Somali famine. Their compassion speaks for itself, and is a shining example of how the business community can have an enormous positive impact on the world. Amanda Lindhout
Positive Business World Decision Compassion Made Example Community Enormous Positive Impact Somali Impact Feed How Shining Itself Famine Victims Business Community Speaks
The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do? Amanda Lindhout
You Gift Greatest Gift Imagination Dream Given Greatest Been Wanting Your
After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they grow older and probably wiser, I can look back at my earlier life - my history, my mistakes, the joy I felt as a young woman traveling the world - with some objectivity and even some humor. Amanda Lindhout
Life History Woman Joy World Humor Mistakes Young Older Think Changed Back Everyone Spending Some Emerge Objectivity Hostage Wiser Days Like Look Felt Does Person Did After Young Woman Even Grow Traveling Earlier Fundamentally
I would like to especially acknowledge my home community of Calgary, and the people of central Alberta who made my dream of freedom a reality. Amanda Lindhout
Home Freedom Reality People Made Community Dream Would Like Acknowledge Central Who
I am so proud to be a Canadian. Amanda Lindhout
Proud Am Canadian
I'm afraid of the dark, but I choose to sleep in the dark. I can fall right to sleep with the lights on. But I want to be someone who can sleep in the dark, so that's the choice that I make. Amanda Lindhout
Dark Fall Someone Lights Make Afraid Want Choice Choose Who Right Sleep
I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in. Amanda Lindhout
Space Because Enclosed Get Afraid
Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me. Amanda Lindhout
Me Travel Vital Because Getting Plane Hard
I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence. Amanda Lindhout
Confidence Change Women Seen Gain Lives Watched
Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. Ambrose Bierce
Hope Skin About Give Retaining His Up Person Bones
It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. Ambrose Bierce
Man Change Better Evident Feel Him Makes Always While Skepticism Actual
Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. Ambrose Bierce
Great King Other Slippery Sufficiently Grease
Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized. Ambrose Bierce
Man Vote Duty Both Highly Another Opinion Ballot Privilege Prized Which Commonly Held Choice Means Noun Expression Right Suffrage Interpreted
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul. Ambrose Bierce
Soul Woman Quality Mind Active Insatiable Objectionable Masculine Know Most Female Female Mind Passions Curiosity Cursed Whether Desire
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. Ambrose Bierce
Me More Himself Than Person Interested
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. Ambrose Bierce
Time Day Hours Period Mostly Twenty-Four
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge. Ambrose Bierce
Knowledge Ignorance Give Classify Small Small Part Part Name Arrange
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. Ambrose Bierce
Own Statement Absurdity Opinion Belief Inconsistent
Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond. Ambrose Bierce
Nature Spring Trees Respond All Things Call Leaving Things
Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. Ambrose Bierce
Battle Political Teeth Would Knot Method Yield Tongue
Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish. Ambrose Bierce
Too State Punish Those Would Would-Be Magnanimity Offenders Expensive Whom Amnesty
Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. Ambrose Bierce
Book Dust Out Shaken Empty Erudition Skull
Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible. Ambrose Bierce
Doubt Possible Only Begins Frontiers Last
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