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I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It is just a weakness that we human beings have for control, we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more. ~Dave Davies
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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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proverbiosTake the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. ~William Osler
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Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. ~Jane Austen
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Begin to weave and God will give you the thread. ~German Proverb
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Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~Proverb
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A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves. ~German Proverb
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The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. ~Ayn Rand
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Be neither intimate nor distant with the clergy. ~Irish Proverb
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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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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The squeaky wheel gets the grease. ~English Proverb
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If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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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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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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You have got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ~Irish Proverb
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
#quotes #anne-lamott #suffering #books
I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway. ~Johnny Vegas
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. ~Sam Shoemaker
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