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Ambrose Bierce quote: "You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it..."

You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.

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Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers. James Wolcott
Mary Higgins Clark quote: "live your life as if you may lose everything."
live your life as if you may lose everything. Mary Higgins Clark
His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master. Neil Gaiman
I catch fire and find the reserves of courage and assertiveness to speak up. When that happens I get quite carried away. My blood gets hot my brow wet I become unbearably and unconscionably sarcastic and bellicose I am girded for a total showdown. William F. Buckley, Jr.
The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you. Pope John Paul II
Joshua Chamberlain quote: "Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get..."
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Sarah Silverman quote: "When I came out to L. A., I got a part in an episode of 'Star..."
When I came out to L. A., I got a part in an episode of 'Star Trek: Voyager,' and I hired an acting coach. Sarah Silverman
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings. Wislawa Szymborska
Now I know who you are. U got nothin' on me, I see. I should've known it from the start. You can't tell me lies. Don't even try cuz. This is goodbye. Goodbye Demi Lovato
The human mind is not a dignified organ, and I do not see how we can exercise it sincerely except through eclecticism. And the only advice I would offer my fellow eclectics is: "Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful. E. M. Forster
George MacDonald quote: "If we speak of direct means for the culture of the..."
If we speak of direct means for the culture of the imagination, the whole is comprised in two words--food and exercise. George MacDonald
Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support. Andrew Jackson
Steve Yzerman quote: "The 70's hair with the long on the sides, just doesn't look..."
The 70's hair with the long on the sides, just doesn't look good coming down the sides of the helmet. Steve Yzerman
I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign Providence; it almost appears a "Divine interposition in our behalf... the hand that destroys our Constitution rends our Union asunder forever. Daniel Webster
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