"It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom."

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Source : Margaret Oliphant Oliphant (1880). “He that will not when he may”

Margaret Oliphant

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“This is one night I wish I smoked and drank.”
“I'm into women. I just really like women a lot.”

Source : "Q&A: Tony Danza on Don Jon, Fake Deaths, and Scarlett Johansson". Interview with Danielle Bacher, www.esquire.com. September 27, 2013.
“... we can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them.”

Source : Albion Fellows Bacon (1914). “Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations”
“Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.”

Source : "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2011.
“People can be great competitors on Sunday and mates on Monday.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17”
“A man who hates the passion cuts off their causes. But a man who remains among their causes experiences even against his will the conflict from the passions. It is not possible to be mentally inclined toward a passion if one does not love its cause. For who, disdaining shame, is given to vainglory? Or who, loving lowliness, is bothered by dishonor? Who, having a broken and humble heart, accepts fleshly sweetness? Or who, believing in Christ, is concerned about temporal things, or argues about them?”
“No no, we ALL teach each other, whether it's dancing, whether it's singing, whether it's talking, we all listen to each other. That's progress.”

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