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A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya Angelou
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I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war.


John Edward Christopher Hill
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.


H. L. Mencken
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God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.
Lewis B. Smedes
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There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.


Nina Simone
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.
Kate Adie
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Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.


Jamie Wyeth
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It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.
Ronald Knox
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
Harbhajan Singh
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The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they're full of bicycle trails.
Mary Oliver
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Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.


Tove Jansson
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Satan, our adversary, wants us to fail. He spreads lies as part of his effort to destroy our belief. He slyly suggests that the doubter, the skeptic, the cynic is sophisticated and intelligent, while those who have faith in God and His miracles are naive, blind, or brainwashed.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.
Wayne Dyer
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I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.


Mayim Bialik
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
V. S. Naipaul
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.


J. Paul Getty
Since the global economic crisis began, the change in global attitudes is clear to see - and I think it is pitiful. Barack Obama came to China and he is probably the only president of the United States never to mention the words 'human rights' in public.
Ai Weiwei
Adoption should be an empowering option for young women in crisis, knowing that the people around them - family, friends, church - will respect their choice.
Nina Easton
If you were to actually travel around schools and universities and listen in on lectures about evolution, you might find a fairly substantial fraction of young people, without knowing what it is they disapprove of, think they disapprove of it, because they've been brought up to.
Richard Dawkins
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Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?


Eliza Cook
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