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I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.


Graham Greene

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JAMES CALLIS Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all
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MITCH KAPOR A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?
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SHARON SALZBERG You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES A man who is aware only of his personal achievements, will never be aware of the collective failures...
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ANNE RICE They seem to have these personalities that are very generic and so I can't really relate to them. I ...
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ANNIE DILLARD I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the ...
NELSON MANDELA Gates are a personal signature of who the person is.
DAVID BAILEY One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisf...
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DAVE BARRY I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?
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JAMES ANDERSON My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, co...
BILLY GRAHAM With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.
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WILLIAM TEMPLE I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.
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C. JOYBELL C. A personal brand is relevant to people who sell or create something relevant to who they are as a pe...
TUCKER MAX I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sp...
PIERRE DE COUBERTIN The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.
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ELVIS MITCHELL I have a few personal ambitions for the band.
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BRIAN GREENE The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.
BRIAN GREENE Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that infor...
BRIAN GREENE String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loa...
BRIAN GREENE I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that yo...
BRIAN GREENE Being out at work in L.A. is the nicest place to be. You don't get depressed because of the sun ...
SARAH GREENE I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane.
ASHLEY GREENE I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
NANCY GREENE If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'
NANCY GREENE Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
NANCY GREENE I'm not from a maple producing area and so my maple syrup credentials are very much of the eatin...
NANCY GREENE I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
BRIAN GREENE We don't need to grow any more. It's not about the numbers at all. It's about the message of the Bib...
ALAN GREENE There's lots of parking, plenty of parking, but people need to pay attention to the signs of how to ...
ALAN GREENE There were no big surprises; it's all been good.
ALAN GREENE We consider them a sponsoring church if they're doing that.
ALAN GREENE I regularly have bad experiences with oils that are not certified but I have never bought a bad bott...
ALAN GREENE We understand that not all churches can pull off canceling or relocating a service, ... We still con...
ALAN GREENE We'll go-ahead with it and see what happens.
ALAN GREENE Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.
ALAN GREENE