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“A thousand kindnesses do not make up for a thousand blows.”
Source : Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1980). “Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic”, Viking Pr
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“I'm attracted to those kinds of roles that could be good or could be bad, and you just don't know.”
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“I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.”
Source : ""Mr g," by Alan Lightman". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. January 24, 2012. 
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“Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over & over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.”
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“I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.”
Source : Francis William Newman (1850). “Phases of Faith; or, passages from the history of my creed”, p.1
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“O reputation! dearer far than life.”
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“I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.”
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“[President Bush should] quit hiding behind the Secret Service, come out and face the nation and explain his failure to protect the country.”
