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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise…
— Thomas Adams
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I will kneel and strike my breast, then touch the dust with my forehead; I will, I will. Only do not forsake…
— Theodore Dreiser
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Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging…
— A. Whitney Brown
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For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs…
— Hippolyte Taine
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He that will be knighted must kneel for it, and he that will enter in at the strait gate must crowd for…
— Thomas Adams
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You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will…
— Abraham Lincoln
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If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their…
— Josephine Bakhita
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Like so many pilgrims before us, we kneel in wonder and adoration before the ineffable mystery which. was accomplished here... In This…
— Pope John Paul II
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O God-Man present in this sacrament for me - what a comfort, what a privilege to know I kneel before God! And…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Anyone who rises above the things of this world, to which you kneel, is mightier than you.
— Ibn Hazm
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