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“Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.”
Source : Rachel Field (1946). “And Now Tomorrow”
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“The only real argument against the Bible is an unholy life. When a man argues against the Word of God, follow him home, and see if you cannot discover the reason of his enmity to the Word of the Lord. It lies in some sort of sin.”
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“Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.”
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“Avoid sin: ... all your deeds are faithfully recorded.”
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“My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.”
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“The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”
Source : Noah Webster (1977). “A collection of essays and fugitiv writings 1790”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint
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“The idea seemed to be that if you prayed extremely hard--especially if a lot of people prayed at once--maybe God would change things. The trouble was, what if your enemy was praying, too? Which prayer would God listen to?”
Source : Jeanne DuPrau (2006). “The Prophet of Yonwood”, p.26, Random House Books for Young Readers
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“I believe nicotine is not addictive.”
