"The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument."

-- Madeleine de Scudery

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“Landing a role now is not based on my looks - more on my acting ability.”
“Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.”
“Maybe we're just stupid and don't realize you can't make music that sounds like a chase scene from a 'Scooby Doo' cartoon and have people take you seriously.”
“Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide.”

Source : 'The Garden' (1681) st. 7
“We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.”
“In our country we ask no toleration for religion and its free exercise, but we claim it as an inalienable right.”

Source : Philip Schaff (1888). “Church and State in the United States ; Or, The American Idea of Religious Liberty and Its Practical Effects: With Official Documents”
“When it seems that God shows us the faults of others, keep on the safer side-it may be that your judgment is false. On your lips let silence abide. And any vice that you may ascribe to others, ascribe at once to them and yourself, in true humility. If that vice really exists in a person, he will correct himself better, seeing himself so gently understood, and will say of his own accord the thing that you would have said to him.”
“There are an infinite number of rewards you could bestow on yourself for working at your creative projects, and you deserve every one of them.”

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