"Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it."

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Thomas Chalmers

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“I've been a skinny girl my whole life. I just don't sit down - I'm always on the go. It must be down to the genes. We have a healthy body image in my house and great appetites. It'd be hard for you to find a food I don't love.”
“I went to stage school with a neighbor to build confidence because I was quite shy.”

Source : Interview with Kaleem Aftab, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 28, 2011.
“I'm always feeling like I don't belong, no matter where I am. So I'm just searching for a family nonstop, and sometimes I find it in the mosh pit, sometimes I find it when I'm doing some French TV show with the president's wife.”

Source : "The Hot Seat: James Hetfield". Interview with Hank Shteamer, www.timeout.com. June 18, 2012.
“Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.”

Source : Angela Davis: An Autobiography ch. 1 (1974)
“Truth can be attested by the supernatural, but so can falsehood.”
“It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost anyone who comes to our shores, and thereby create desire and with it shame for that desire. Indeed, it is worse still than that: Precisely because we worry publicly that we are insensitive, our enemies scoff privately that we in fact are too sensitive - what we think is liberality and magnanimity they see as license and decadence. If we don't have confidence in who we are, why should they?”
“What proves the hero truly great,Is never, never to despair.”

Source : David Mallet (1759). “The Works of David Mallet...: Alfred, a masque. The life of Francis Bacon”, p.20
“Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.”

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