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Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in…

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Bless me Father, I ate a lizard.
One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.
Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny…
The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would…
Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the…
I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.
That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.
It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.
The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.
Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and…
To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only…
Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.

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When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you… — George Clooney
On immigration policy, I believe we ought to call an immediate halt, stop illegal immigration and reduce legal immigration back to about… — Pat Buchanan
To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success. — Anna Pavlova
Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee… — Cesare Pavese
If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There… — Charles Spurgeon
I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years… — Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move.... To halt under fire is folly.… — George S. Patton
On dispersive ground, therefore, fight not. On facile ground, halt not. On contentious ground, attack not. On open ground, do not try… — Sun Tzu
One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of Galileo has made its first halt before… — Ivan Pavlov
If you are through with dreams, then progress halts. — Baba Amte

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