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I sometimes think that the very essence of the whole Christian position and the secret of a successful spiritual life is just to realize two things... I must have complete, absolute confidence in God and no confidence in myself."
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I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.
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If humans did not manufacture some of their own to appear like better people, people would not aspire to be someone else. They would stop dreaming. And if people didn't dream, they would be awake to discover the wonderful misery of being. There are no singular great people. There is only a small percentage of people manufactured to look significant, for the purpose of creating the feeling of mass insignificance.
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It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
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One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter
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Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.
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in his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles ...
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It may sound like a mess, but sometimes mess can be okay, mess can be fine. Sometimes mess is just another word for living your life as real you, not someone else's version of what they think you should be.
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You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it
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Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most
