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Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings and battering we… — Elizabeth Bowen
Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden… — A. Whitney Brown
A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love. — Doris Lessing
When you grow up in America things like Christianity waters down your feeling... When you're taught to love everybody, taught to love you're enemies, what… — Marilyn Manson
All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul. — James Russell Lowell
Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their… — Thomas Jefferson
Angels light the way. Angels do not begrudge anyone anything, angels do not tear down, angels do not compete, angels do not constrict their hearts,… — Marianne Williamson
A pillow for thee will I bring,Stuffed with down of angel's wing. — Richard Crashaw
It comes down to whether you believe in seven miraculous escapes a week or one guardian angel. — Robert Breault
There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows… — Edward Hoagland
A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar… — Robert Benchley
We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to… — Charles Evans Hughes
It's much harder to give up on family.Deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake. — Tori Spelling
Soul-the spiritual principle, the creative spark of God-cannot work if you panic. Anxiety shuts down the creative centers. When you can't think, whatever you try… — Harold Klemp
Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him… — Clarence Budington Kelland
When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day… — Louis C. K.
We believe we are hurt when we don't receive love. But that is not what hurts us. Our pain comes when we do not give… — Alan Cohen
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs. — Larry Wall
It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but if it looks… — Richard Dawkins
I especially love driving down a hill directly at a tree and swerving to one side at the last moment. That's my way to relax. — Boris Yeltsin

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