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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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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Practice makes perfect. ~English Proverb
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What exists is a godly existence, a divine existence. God not as a person but as a presence certainly exists. But to understand that presence, you have to understand your own inner presence first, because it is from there that you can take off, it is from there that you can have the first glimpse of what godliness is. If you have not known yourself you will never know God. ~Rajneesh
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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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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Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go. ~Zach Johnson
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end. ~Emily Mortimer
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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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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb
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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. ~Arabic Proverb
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ~Anthony Trollope
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Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. ~Dave Barry
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I take pride in the fact that a lot of little kids dig what I do. ~John Cena
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected. ~Jacki Weaver
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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Time gives good advice. ~Proverb
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Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor. ~Oriental Proverb
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