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Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.
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Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
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A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.
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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
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There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
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The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
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Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
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The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
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Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
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I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
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Conscience is the root of all true courage if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
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Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
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But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.
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It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
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People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.
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No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
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Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
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Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
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A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.
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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
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