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“There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance; else noise of wars would unmake heaven.”
Source : Mary Clemmer, Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1873). “A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: With Some of Their Later Poems”, p.95
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“You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood.”
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“Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little.”
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“We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.”
Source : Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.36, Ignatius Press
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“I can't imagine how Afghanistan's fall isn't going to be ten times faster than Iraq's.”
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“Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?”
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“I think one reason I'm drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means of intensifying feeling.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net