"To Him let us but cleave in all ouv strife; and the Tempte1 will flee; the wilderness will be desolate no more; angels will come and minister unto us; and when we pass from them to the ministry of life, be it to the glory of a transfiguration, the sorrows of a Gethsemane, or the sacrifice of the cross, the tran- quilizing peace of God will never be far from us."

-- James Martineau

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“Karl Marx was the foremost hater and most incessant whiner in the history of Western Civilization. He was a spoiled, overeducated brat who never grew up; he just grew more shrill as he grew older. His lifelong hatred and whining have led to the deaths (so far) of perhaps a hundred million people, depending on how many people perished under Mao's tyranny. We will probably never know.”
“When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.”
“The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes.”
“How difficult it is to be simple.”
“Any chance heâ€™s turned a new leaf and taken up sailing for real?â€ â€œAbout as likely as me doing it.â€ Hadrian eyed Royce for a heartbeat. â€œI put him at the top of the list.”
“In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home”
“Our life is not given to us like an opera libretto, in which all is written down; but it means going, walking, doing, searching, seeing.... We must enter into the adventure of the quest for meeting God; we must let God search and encounter us.”
“All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy.”

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