Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ~William Griffith Wilson
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Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. ~Tilda Swinton
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Nothing is more certain of destroying any good feeling that may be cherished towards us than to show distrust. To be suspected as an enemy is often enough to make a man become so; the whole matter is over, there is no farther use of guarding against it. On the contrary, confidence leads us naturally to act kindly, we are affected by the good opinion which others entertain of us, and we are not easily induced to lose it. ~Marie de Rabutin Chantal
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never. ~French Proverb
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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It is amazing how many people beat you at golf now that you are no longer president. ~George H. W. Bush
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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ~George E. Allen
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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty; it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~George Eliot
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The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett. ~Al Franken
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Among the southern tribes, on the contrary, hats were sometimes worn in the dance, although this was not considered in strict accordance with the doctrine. ~James Mooney
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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I'm not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach. ~Marc Guggenheim
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He who cooks a bad thing, eats of it. ~Arabic Proverb
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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
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Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. ~Richard Dawkins
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We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church. ~Johnny Hunt
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One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good. ~George Archer
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I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg. I don't usually admit this publicly, because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it, to use it as a way of luring audiences in. ~Terry Gilliam
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