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....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

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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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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. — William Blake
If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree. — William Butler Yeats
All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
May you become as the waves of one sea, stars of the same heaven, fruits adorning the same tree, roses of one… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it… — Albert Einstein
If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves;… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Here is a tree rooted in African soil, nourished with waters from the rivers of Afrika. Come and sit under its shade… — Robert Sobukwe
What may appear as the truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry… — Mahatma Gandhi
According to traditional wisdom in rural France, a baby in the womb should be compared to fruit on the tree. Not all… — Michel Odent
Hamas is ISIS, and ISIS is Hamas. They're branches of the same tree. People who wantonly rocket our cities and want to… — Benjamin Netanyahu
We have all been hypnotized into thinking that we are smaller than we are. Just as an undersized flowerpot keeps a mighty… — Alan Cohen
What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've… — Paul Davies

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