We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church. ~Johnny Hunt
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations. ~Sue Kelly
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Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't. ~John Henry Patterson
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress. ~Jean Bertrand Aristide
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. ~Rumi
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No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself. ~Chinese Proverb
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. ~Gary Ross
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Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events. ~Ralph Marston
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. ~Gaston Bachelard
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~Latin Proverb
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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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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Actions speak louder than words. ~English Proverb
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
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I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. ~George Burns
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I am still me even after all that has happened. ~Victoria Beckham
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I like acting and things when I like the writing. If I don't like the writing, I don't like acting. I think in some ways everything starts for me from the place of writing. ~Greta Gerwig
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The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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