A dimple on the chin, the devil within. ~Gaelic Proverb
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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Fame is a magnifying glass. ~English Proverb
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog. ~Robert Fulghum
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. ~Ben Stein
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ~William James
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Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I am getting old and I need something to rely on. So tell me when you are going to let me in. I am getting tired and I need somewhere to begin. ~Bil Keane
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy nowadays it means rank subversion. ~Germaine Greer
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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications. ~Starhawk
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today. ~R. A. Salvatore
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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither. ~Thomas Jefferson
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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. ~C. S. Lewis
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Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. ~Edmond About
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Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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The struggle to maintain peace is immeasurably more difficult than any military operation. ~Anne O'Hare McCormick
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It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out. ~Derek Jeter
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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You well never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
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Children see things very well sometimes, and idealists even better. ~Lorraine Hansberry
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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