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“The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value”
Charles Dudley Warner
“Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing”
Christopher Fry
“[Its] language is as bare as a monk's cell, and as uninviting.”
Clifford Longley
“Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige. The more it obtains state support the greater it curtails human freedom.”
William Orville Douglas
“Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.”
David Hume
“One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.”
Chinua Achebe
“Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?”
Charles de Lint
“The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.”
Ella Fitzgerald
“'Cause I swear that I'm dying, slowly but its happining.”
Conor Oberst
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