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- You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
- Anne Lamott
- The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?
- Judith Hayes
- That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged
- In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love.
- Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
- Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Leo Buscaglia (1925 - 1998)
- If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.
- Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - )
- People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Well I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyse his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there.
- Freddie Mercury (1946 - 1991), In an interview
- No man who know aught can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversations as a dog does.
- Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
- There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), The Premature Burial
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