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Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
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Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?""I don't know, but the...
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Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... ALBERT CAMUS A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
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Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. ERNEST HEMINGWAY
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES
He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we ...
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No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... TESSA DARE A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
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…A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed... ALBERT CAMUS
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this is my letter to a young ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY It's important to understand that if someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
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LISA R. REYNOLDS The whole ordeal is unconstitutional. We are all Americans and what the federal government does is d...
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Black progressives suffered major disillusionment with white progressives when our experiences of wo... BELL HOOKS
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