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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America, it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ~Pat Robertson
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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proverbiosFire, water, and government know nothing of mercy. ~Proverb
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb
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A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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Honesty is the best privacy policy. ~Internet Proverb
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Honesty is the best policy. ~English Proverb
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Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians. ~James Herbert
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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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The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament. ~Alistair Cooke
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Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something. ~John C. Maxwell
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a wow outcome! ~Tom Peters
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Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish. ~Theodor Reik
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company. ~Courtney B. Vance
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Tear off the curtain of doubt by questions. ~Arabic Proverb
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James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond. ~Ken Follett
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