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“Patients know what patients want to know.”
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“The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.”
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“The devil does not bring sinners to hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. Before we fall into sin, the enemy labours to blind us, that we may not see the evil we do and the ruin we bring upon ourselves by offending God. After we commit sin, he seeks to make us dumb, that, through shame, we may conceal our guilt in confession.”
Source : "Sermons of St. Alphonsus Liguori: For All the Sundays of the Year".
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“After I had the Caesarean, I was told I had really strong stomach muscles and so would heal very quickly. And I did. I was up walking about within three hours. Six days after having her, I was out shopping and shortly after that I made it to David Walliams' wedding.”
Source : "Denise Van Outen: 'I was bullied for not breastfeeding'". www.mirror.co.uk. October 10, 2010.
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“The religion of our fathers overhung us children like the shadow of a mighty tree against the trunk of which we rested, while we looked up in wonder through the great boughs that half hid and half revealed the sky. Some of the boughs were already decaying, so that perhaps we began to see a little more of the sky than our elders; but the tree was sound at its heart ...”
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“The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.”
Source : Albert Murray, Roberta S. Maguire (1997). “Conversations with Albert Murray”, p.129, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.”
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“Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.”
Source : Interview with Kevin Cook, www.playboy.com. June 2005.