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Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to… — M. Scott Peck
The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then… — Peter De Vries
During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was disgusted by seeing… — Chuck Palahniuk
[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of… — Anais Nin
God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly… — C.S. Lewis
The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst. — Margaret Atwood
Clearly, I see it. I was just about to leave when I found her kneeling there. A mountain range of rubble was written, designed, erected… — Markus Zusak
He wishes he had never entered the funhouse. But he has. Then he wishes he were dead. But he's not. Therefore he will construct funhouses… — John Barth
Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you… — Jonathan Safran Foer
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break… — John Adams
The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy. Even at night, as if on purpose, the development held no looming shadows… — Richard Yates
If not to God, you will surrender to the opinions or expectations of others, to money, to resentment, to fear, or to your own pride,… — Rick Warren
Keep in mind that part of growing up is dealing with difficult issues, and the benefits can be great if you have the courage to… — Jack Canfield
There was no pretention here, no hidden meanings in the phrases they spoke, no elaborate plans designed to impress the other. Though it had always… — Nicholas Sparks
You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch… — Julian Barnes
Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed… — James A. Baldwin
Sometimes I would like to cry. I close my eyes. Why weren't we designed so that we can close our ears as well? (Perhaps because… — Kate Atkinson
I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the… — Muhammad Yunus
[God] never will institute an ordinance or give a commandment to His people that is not calculated in its nature to promote that happiness which… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into… — Toni Morrison

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