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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide,…
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Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been…
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Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it…
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The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never…
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The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live…
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Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.
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In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And…
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The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re…
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I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and…
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To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not…
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Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life,…
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The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
— Philip Yancey
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Evil is powerful, but good is more powerful. In fact, evil is so powerful that only good has the power to overcome…
— Jay E. Adams
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The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never…
— Ben Okri
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Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling…
— Vasily Grossman
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We can overcome evil with greater good.
— Laura Bush
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Given is the word. Given publicly, on the first Good Friday, on a hill, in the sight of all, was the visible…
— Unknown Author
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Have a good physical outlet of some sport or exercise. Overcome evil with good. You can overcome many evil inclinations through good…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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He (Jesus) knew that the old eye-for-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build…
— Maya Angelou
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The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death,…
— Carl Jung
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The followers of Christ have been called to peace. . . . And they must not only have peace but make it.…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
— Peace Pilgrim
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