Reality is not meant to be only creedal, though the creeds are important. Reality is to be experienced, and experienced on the basis of a restored relationship with God through that finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross. ~Francis Schaeffer
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. ~Spanish 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
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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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Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~Proverb
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film. ~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second. ~Etty Hillesum
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Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb
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Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. ~Gregory Bateson
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Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along? ~Peter Schuyler
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. ~Charles Caleb
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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Most people have a blank slate and can start from nothing. But for me, I had to break a bad habit that I've been doing all of my life, which is freestyle hip-hop. ~Roshon Fegan
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There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives. ~James Bovard
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excursions into the chaotic that make life interesting. ~Linda Ronstadt
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In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human. ~Elie Wiesel
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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As far as I'm concerned, I did'nt dream; ever. ~Theodore Sturgeon
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We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are. ~Neil Strauss
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