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When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can't budge you from believing God, he won't know what to do with you anymore.
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In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.
Dave Barry
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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.
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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.


Eugene Ionesco
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A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
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The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.


Francis Thompson
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The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.
Gary Lineker
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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.
Max Weber
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Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.


Tom Waits
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The history taught in our schools is scandalous. We grew up believing that Columbus actually discovered America. We still celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus was after one thing only - gold.
Woody Harrelson
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Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.
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I'm only a stupid filmmaker.


Roland Emmerich
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya Angelou
Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.
Edmund Morgan
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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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George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil.


Patton Oswalt
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Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.


Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.


Margaret Mead
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The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.
Edward Bach
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas Paine
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