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“My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.”

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There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

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“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.”

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“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent…

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This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.

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As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my…

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We should never forget the two axioms: 'Jesus is with me' and whatever happens, happens by the will of God.

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“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.”

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But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature…

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