We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. ~Matt Chandler
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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Fear is worse than the ordeal itself. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. ~Teri Hatcher
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The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens. ~Lillie Langtry
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"Why aren't you dead?" Will demanded. ~Cinda Williams Chima
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~African Proverb
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God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships. ~Tom Robbins
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Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. ~Margaret Heffernan
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. ~Chinese Proverb
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ~Barbara Jordan
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I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to. ~Chic Murray
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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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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When God blesses the harvest, there is enough for the thief as well as the gardener. ~Polish Proverb
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"Feminist comedy," practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children. ~Grace Slick
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Luck has a slender anchorage. ~English Proverb
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A fish and a bird may fall in love but the two cannot build a home together. ~African Proverb
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The sun does not forget a village just because it is small. ~African Proverb
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Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming. ~Leonardo DiCaprio
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