"A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored."

-- Karl Kraus

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“We have discovered how to hit the Jews where they are the most vulnerable. The Jews love life, so that is what we shall take away from them. We are going to win, because they love life and we love death.”
“The second and third generation effect of immigration accounts for only a small portion of the height shortfall between Americans and northern Europeans. Besides the slowdown in American heights began in the 1950s, well before large-scale immigration into the country.”
“To show that you truly care, you listen.”
“I think everyone is bi, right? There's no such thing as sexual orientation, or race, or gender. Those are all obsolete man-made concepts.”

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“I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.”
“I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.”
“May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.”
“Only when we have done all we knew to do can we wait by faith for God to do what only He can do.”

Source : James MacDonald (2011). “Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard”, p.111, Moody Publishers

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