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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
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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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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
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Seeing is believing. ~Chinese Proverb
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proverbiosI think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life. ~Jessye Norman
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The most important thing about you is what comes to your mind when you think of God. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
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You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. ~Norbert of Xanten
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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. ~Max Eastman
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One who asks questions is a fool for five minutes, one who does not ask questions remains a fool forever. ~Chinese Proverb
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~Yoruban Proverb
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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Even the smallest of stars shines in the darkness. ~Swedish Proverb
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Arabic Proverb
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Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand. Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle. ~Heather Brewer
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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Who does not thank for little, will not thank for much. ~Estonian Proverb
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When there is no thought, the kundalini rises. When you create a vacuum, something will be drawn into it. The less thought you have, the more kundalini will flow through the chakras, the shushumna. ~Frederick Lenz
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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