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“The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.”
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“To be credible we must be truthful.”
Source : Testimony before a Congressional Committee, pdaa.publicdiplomacy.org. May 1963. 
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“We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending.”
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“I'm one of those people who snake through the crowd, keep my head low. I'm not looking for attention.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.”
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“Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.”
Source : Kirby Larson (2013). “Hattie Ever After”, p.156, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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“Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the water, her wrists slide up her arms. The diver wraps herself in her reflection wholly, sealing it at the toes, and wears it as she climbs rising from the pool, and ever after.”
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“Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.”
