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Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.
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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
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The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.
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There is one story and one story only.
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Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't…
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The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War to end,…
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We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English…
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The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties…
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No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation…
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
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To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should…
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Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or…
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It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small…
— Francois Mauriac
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No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation…
— Robert Graves
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Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?
— Mark Twain
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John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets.
— Leonard Ravenhill
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Three more saves and he ties John the Baptist.
— Unknown Author
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This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry; the cloud is black before it…
— Charles Spurgeon
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John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybodys…
— James Green
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When Jesus stepped into the waters of the Jordan and was baptized by John the Baptist, he did so not because he…
— Pope Francis
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I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
— Bear Grylls
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John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance…
— Kenneth Scott Latourette
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He got me a cup of tea with honey, toast with honey, yogurt with honey, like I was John the Baptist with…
— Anne Lamott
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Don’t ask me those questions! Don’t ask me what life means or how we know reality or why we have to suffer…
— Susanna Kaysen
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