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In violence, we forget who we are
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A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.
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In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but…
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The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at…
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Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end…
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Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the…
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The happy ending is our national belief.
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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
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Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed…
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An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.
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Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
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To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause…
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That evening I went for a walk. To walk for the sake of walking is something I seldom do. Inside my apartment…
— Daniel Quinn
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An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is…
— Gautama Buddha
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Hell hath no fury like a frustrated fundamentalist whose God condemned him to "hell" for having "impure thoughts."
— Michael R. Burch
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When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church…
— Fidel Castro
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If your mind is filled with the Word of God, then it can't be filled with impure thoughts.
— David Jeremiah
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...if you wish to get pure air into your room, or if you go for a walk in the fresh air, think…
— John of Kronstadt
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Christianity is not about not swearing. It’s not about not having impure thoughts. Really, it’s not about not at all. Christianity is…
— Judah Smith
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Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the…
— Athenaeus
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If you talked or laughed in church, told lies, had impure thoughts or conversations, you were bad; if you obeyed your parents…
— Mary McCarthy
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Do not test out your mind on the grounds that you are examining what seductive and impure thoughts look like, imagining that,…
— Isaac of Nineveh
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