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“I disagree with those who argue that evolutionary biology and the existence of God are incompatible.”
Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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“I guess I'm sort of spoiled because, most of the things that I get to do, people know that you're a good improviser, so they allow you at least one improv take, and for comedy, that's great.”
Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. April 13, 2012. 
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“Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting.”
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“The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me.”
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“and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.”
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“After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.”
Source : Russ Carnahan's remarks at the United States House of Representatives (October 28, 2005), as quoted in "Congressional Record, Volume 151 - Part 18: October 27, 2005 to November 7, 2005 (Pages 23969 to 25296)" by Government Printing Office (p. 24193), 2010.
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“... up to this date, I have never been shut up in a separate room, or hedged off with any observances. My study, all the study I have attained to, is the little 2nd drawing room where all the (feminine) life of the house goes on; and I don't think I have ever had two hours undisturbed (except at night, when everybody is in bed) during my whole literary life.”
Source : Margaret Oliphant (2002). “The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant”, p.67, Broadview Press
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“I don't understand how people learn to live in the world if they haven't had siblings. Everything I learned about negotiation, territoriality, coexistence, dislike, inbred differences and love despite knowledge I learned from my four younger siblings ...”
