"Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing."

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H. L. Mencken

#Knowing Quotes #Effort Quotes #Literature Quotes

“In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.”
“If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?”
“The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.”
“Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.”
“What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.”
“Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad and my brother are the most important men in my life and I would do anything for them. I feel like I should be the one cooking and looking after them.”
“It was an arranged marriage, put together by drugs and alcohol.”
“I liked the koala, wallaby, and I chilled with a kangaroo a bit. There was a wombat that I quite enjoyed also”

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