"Jesus has never slept for an hour while one of His disciples watched and prayed in agony."

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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 89), 1895.

Henry Clay Trumbull

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“I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting - the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch you're sitting on.”

Source : David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.321, Penguin
“Thank goodness I've saved my money.”
“Can't do it, simply cause underneath 'em is too ugly.”
“Every bad decision I've made has been based on money.”
“We need to take responsibility for the effect of our environment on our nervous systems, and particularly the nervous systems of our children. No wonder so many of them are diagnosed with all the stuff they're diagnosed with today. Modern technology is a blessing to be sure, but it's also a curse if we allow it to pull us out of our spiritual center. A 24 hour electronic onslaught comes at the expense of our deep humanity and our deepest relationships.”
“The presidency is probably the loneliest office in America. Regardless of your friends, regardless of how good your marriage is, regardless of anything, you are alone there at the top.”
“A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.”

Source : Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.108, Library of Alexandria
“Every photograph is a fiction with pretensions to truth. Despite everything that we have been inculcated, all that we believe, photography always lies; it lies instinctively, lies because its nature does not allow it to do anything else.”

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