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I [i.e., God] have given you baptism as a gift for the forgiveness of sins, and preach to you unceasingly by word… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
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I always say about my daughters, they save me from my miserable self. They take me out, you know, a comedian, you… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
It's no doubt that there's a connection (between the blues and hip-hop). Hip-hop is definitely a child of the blues. And I… — Common Copy Share Image
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A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
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I doubt very much that the chief executives of any of the Fortune 500 corporations can name five edible plants, five native… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
I have a horror of boring someone or, worse still, of someone boring me. I said to my mother when I was… — Celia Imrie Copy Share Image
There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion,… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
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If thy faith have no doubts, thou has just cause to doubt thy faith; and if thy doubts have no hope, thou… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
What's a problem with India, in particular, is female feticide - aborting a female fetus. It is unacceptable and illegal, but it… — Barbara Crossette Copy Share Image
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I'm attracted to the garden, without a doubt, but I always try and image the wolf that's there, too. And that wolf… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
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Both the 18th and the early 20th centuries, however, feature brilliant attacks on originality, and it's no doubt one of the hallmarks… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
Faith is the readiness to reveal whatever is concealed. You don't have to conceal doubts by putting on patches of self-confirmation. The… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
When I first heard from the lips of Lucretia Mott that I had the same right to think for myself that Luther,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
New York is a meeting place for every race in the world, but the Chinese, Armenians, Russians, and Germans remain foreigners. So… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
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After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For better or worse, editing is what editors are for; and editing is selection and choice of material. That editors newspaper or… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
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I do believe that half a dozen commonplace attorneys could so mystify and misconstrue the Ten Commandments, and so confuse Moses' surroundings… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image