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Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin' dope, I started drinking, I started… — Gregory Hines
Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely… — Charles Lamb
There's nothing glorious about being a professional. . . . Professionalism probably comes down to being able to work on a bad day. — Norman Mailer
Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off, and security, on top of working fewer hours. They can… — Mortimer Zuckerman
This is a steady, ceaseless process, impossible to contain as long as the economy driven by the endless accumulation of capital. The system may prolong… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Nigel gave the lamp a cautious buff and small smoking red letters appeared in the air. "Hi," Nigel read aloud, "Do not put down the… — Terry Pratchett
The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human soul. Throughout eternity you will… — Sterling W Sill
When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage… — James Freeman Clarke
Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing… — Adolf Hitler
It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down before… — Adolf Hitler
What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to… — Saint Augustine
The best advice that I can give you is this: Church-traditions- especially when they do not run counter to the faith- are to be observed… — St. Jerome
Paul commands: 'Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the Traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.' From this it… — Saint John Chrysostom
It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies. — Pope Leo XIII
Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and nations keeps me… — Saint Augustine
And the angel said unto me: Behold the formation of a church which is most abominable above all other churches, which slayeth the saints of… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck. — Anne Lamott
No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone… — Carl Jung

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