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Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.
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I don't lack for bed partners, so I don't need to scrounge for unwilling scraps.-Spade
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You just can't imagine the kind of guy he was without seeing him play. He was a circus, a play, a movie, all rolled into one.
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Freedom of religion is one of the greatest gifts of God to man, without distinction of race and color. He is the author and lord of conscience, and no power on earth has a right to stand between God and the conscience.
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I wanted to say sorry, I wanted to tell her I could not forget the roundup, the camp, Michel's death, and the direct train to Auschwitz that had taken her parents away forever. Sorry for what? he had retaliated, why should I, an American, feel sorry, hadn't my fellow countrymen freed France in June 1944? I had nothing to be sorry for, he laughed. I had looked at him straight in the eyes. Sorry for not knowing. Sorry for being forty-five years old and not knowing.
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The carbon emissions from tar shale and tar sands would initiate a continual unfolding of climate disasters over the course of this century. We would be miserable stewards of creation. We would rob our own children and grandchildren.
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How little wives may realize that a biting, stinging word in the morning will rob a husband of efficiency the whole day long. But a loving, tender, beautiful word—a little prayer word—will fill him with music and will lead him into victory.
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The best kisses have something behind it - maybe something has been smoldering for a while, and it's about to happen.
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Today, she had yielded the sovereignty of her country to Eugenides, who had given up everything he had ever hoped for, to be her King.
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Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, mans highest faculty.
