Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. ~Galileo Galilei
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It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. ~Spanish Proverb
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Eating people is wrong. ~Michael Flanders
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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously? ~Steve Stevaert
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Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish. ~Theodor Reik
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I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love. ~K.P. Yohannan
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As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years; the longest in the world. ~Robert Jarvik
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I always say to my Twitter followers to come to the stage door and meet me. What I love about being in the theatre, rather than filming, is that you meet your audience. ~Sheridan Smith
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The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is. ~James Gray
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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork. ~English Proverb
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Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox. ~Anna Howard Shaw
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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The garden is the poor man's apothecary. ~German Proverb
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I mean, sometimes, a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing. ~Eddie Izzard
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~Zen Proverb
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Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. ~Benazir Bhutto
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not. ~Leos Carax
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When I am in situations where I break out of the pattern, it's hard on me. Once you get used to regular scripture study, you miss it if you don't have it. It's like food; you have to have it. I know that I need the scriptures like I need food. I don't miss a regular meal, and I don't miss regular scripture study. ~Henry B. Eyring
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A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~American Proverb
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There is no place like home. ~English Proverb
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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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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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