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Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but pass. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick. Phyllis McGinley
A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane. Sarah dragged her wreckage back to the house up to her bedroom, and down into a deep, dark hole. Mitch Albom
People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite... Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never explained. Nelson Mandela
Mario Puzo quote: "A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men..."
A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns. Mario Puzo
To know you are among people whom you love, and who love you? that has made all the successes wonderful, much more wonderful than they'd have been anyway. Noel Coward
All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself, he is no longer anything, and when two people both give themselves up in order to become closer to each other, there is no longer any ground beneath them and their being together is a continual falling? I have learned over and over again, there is scarcely anything more difficult than to love one another. Rainer Maria Rilke
Thought as suc? is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it; this is what thought has inherited from its archetype, the relation between labor and material. Today, when ideologues tend more than ever to encourage thought to be positive, they cleverly note that positivity runs precisely counter to thought, and that it takes friendly persuasion by social authority to accustom thought to positivity. Theodor Adorno
We live in time-it holds us and moulds us-but I've never felt I understood it very well. And I am not referring to the theories of how it bends and doubles back, or may exist elsewhere in parallel versions. No, I mean ordinary, everyday time, which clocks and watches assure us passes regularly: tick-tock, click-clock. Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow... Julian Barnes
If someone else takes a bite of my food, I have to cut off the part that his/her saliva has touched before I can eat any more of it. Jodi Picoult
Nick Hornby quote: "One thing about great art: it made you love people more,..."
One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. Nick Hornby
The main reason I felt foolish and humiliated was because of - what had I called it to myself, only a few days previously? - 'the eternal hopefulness of the human heart'. And before that, 'the attraction of overcoming someone's contempt'. I don't think I normally suffer from vanity, but I'd clearly been more afflicted than I realised. Julian Barnes
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago. Paulo Coelho
Terence McKenna quote: "The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed."
The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed. Terence McKenna
Do you know what I do when any man preaches against the doctrines I preach? I go to the Bible and find out what it says, and if I am right I give them more of the same kind. Dwight L. Moody
Nothing new about death, nothing new about deaths caused militarily. We scorched and boiled and baked to death more people in Tokyo on that night of March 9-10 than went up in vapor at Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.”7 Schaffer, Ronald (1988-09-29). Wings of Judgment : American Bombing in World War II (p. 152). Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition. Curtis LeMay

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