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Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Interview, Mcsweeneys.net
I don’t think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 20, 2003
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Man is what he believes.: Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
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Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.: Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.: A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)
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I have gotten a lot more attention than...other women that I find incredibly beautiful. And this has happened to me ever since I was a girl, when I was flat, had no teeth, was skinny and small as I could be. I always got more attention than anyone else. If I hadn't, I would have made sure I did.: Salma Hayek
The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.: Gordon Atkinson, reallivepreacher.com weblog, September 4, 2003
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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.: Mary Daly
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Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.: Herman Wouk (1915 - )
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Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.: Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-10-06
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.: William Hale White
To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
The wisest men follow their own direction.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
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I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.: Etty Hillesum
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.: Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682), 'Christian Morals,' 1716