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...good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone.
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Where there is no compassion, crime increases.
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I've been an agnostic for as long as I can remember ... so I don't know where we go. But if it turns out that the lights are just turned off and nothing happens, well, that's okay.
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One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.
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The believer does not use God's power; God's power uses him.
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If you think too much about something, you're not feeling it.
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I think it's important to keep mantras fresh (sometimes the same verse can get stale). That being said, I love this powerful statement: 'Define yourself.' I rehearsed it a million times during the 2005 Chicago Marathon [her first win].
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There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'.
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... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.
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The past was a consumable, subject to the national preference for familiar products. And history, in America, is a dish best served plain. The first course could include a dollop of Italian in 1492, but not Spanish spice or French sauce or too much Indian corn. Nothing too filling or fancy ahead of the turkey and pumpkin pie, just the way Grandma used to cook it.
