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Joost de Blank
"Christ in this country would quite likely have been arrested under the Suppression of Communism act."
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Joost de Blank
#Country Quotes
#Christ Quotes
#Communism Quotes
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“Even Heaven would be Hell to some people because they'd be too close to God!”
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“It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.”
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“Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.”
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“There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.”
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“I regret that I stayed in my first relationship for too long. I didn't get that it wasn't working out.”
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“Doubt is a precipice on the way to God. Blessed is he who is freed from its bonds. He who fares without any doubt, adhere to his footprints if you do not know the way. Cleave to the footprints of the deer and advance with care that you may reach the musk-gland. By means of such trekking, even if you walk on fire, you will reach the luminous peak.”
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“Life's not fair. It's only short.”
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“Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. Instant information is not for me. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it. And, Oprah, can you imagine curling up in bed to read a computer? Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up — some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal.”
