"PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment." — Ambrose Bierce

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• While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together,… — Tim Allen
• In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough… — Janet Morris
• Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future. — Emil Brunner
• Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter. — Fran Lebowitz
• It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science… — Lewis Thomas
• From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for… — E. O. Wilson
• Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as… — Linus Pauling
• Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet… — Lincoln Steffens
• My Lord Jesus Christ, who, for the love You bear to mankind, do remain night and day in this Sacrament,… — Alphonsus Liguori
• The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who… — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
• Change doesn't have to be hard, and healing doesn't have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing… — Iyanla Vanzant
• If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people… — Maya Angelou

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