"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. ~Matt Chandler
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Grade school was perilous. I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both. ~Sue Grafton
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Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop. ~Roshon Fegan
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Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. ~Giuseppe Garibaldi
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The people of Chicago are a proud people; and for good reason. ~Jane Byrne
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I'm a songwriter first. ~Carole King
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There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
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There is a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary. ~Trevor Dunn
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If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow. ~Henry Adams
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ~Milton Friedman
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The First Amendment only says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." It can disrespect all it wants. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. ~Bernard of Clairvaux
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well. ~Edward Hallowell
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I went to church with my grandparents sometimes, and I loved it. ~Anne Lamott
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Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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If you were to open up a baby's head, and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should; you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland. ~Dave Barry
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I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them. ~Cy Twombly
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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. ~Welsh Proverb
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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To be a team, you must be a family. ~Don Meyer
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If you want something done well, do it yourself. ~English Proverb
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