If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.


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If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety.
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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings.
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....let me tell you that the one sin I have come to fear more than any other is certainty. Certainty...
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HASH, x. There is no definition for this word --nobody knows what hash is.
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Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts: and no one to thank
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI
There was no force in any world that could keep her contained.
SARAH J. MAAS
There would be no passion in this world if we never had to fight for what we love.
SUSIE SWITZER
If I could be any flavor of ice cream, I would be spinach so no one would eat me.
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If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry
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There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.
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There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.
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If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.
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There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
DAVID STARR JORDAN
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
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There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
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If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.
SHANNON L. ALDER
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
ERIC HOFFER
If everybody was satisfied with himself there would be no heroes.
MARK TWAIN
Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.
WILLIAM GLASSER
…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.
JOHN IRVING
If there is no love, how can there be passion or reason?
DEBASISH MRIDHA
There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.
DAVID STARR JORDAN
In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.
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With faith, there are no questions; without faith, there are no answers.
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There was simply no peace to be had no matter where you hid yourself away. Even in a northern border...
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If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
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If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
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Hakuna mimi katika umoja. Kuna sisi.
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If we hadn't carried out this action ... there would be no debate.
JOSE BOVE
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
EDWARD HOPPER
If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.
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It was from feeling oneself that one had reached the last barrier, that it was horrible, but that it...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creature...
DONALD DAVIDSON
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TEMITOPE OWOSELA
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TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS
There is no precedent for this, but there is no question who put this situation in motion. If they d...
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Even if there was no war, I wouldn't be interested in the military.
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A reputation is what you hear when no one is there to speak for it.
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There is no such thing as was—only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.
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If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be n...
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MUSIC OF THE UNIVERSE

Without the orchestra of the universe,
There would be no ether...
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
LEO TOLSTOY
If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
G. K. CHESTERTON
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it
ISADORA DUNCAN
He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creat...
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If all the world were just, there would be no need of valor
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Gravity is something that people take for granted ,but you would not no that it was generated by the...
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The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we c...
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Fans are relatively resilient in coping with loss. If we weren't, there would be no Cubs fans.
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If we do not drastically change, there will be no labor movement in this country,
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I'm not missing any starts. No way. If I was going to miss a start, it would be (Sunday). Why am I s...
BARRY ZITO
I like living sparsely. In the main room, there's no furniture - no tables, no chairs, no coffee...
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There would be better kids in this world today if prayer was in school.
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There was no violence, no aggression and we find imposing a banning order would be disproportionate ...
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If there were any justice in this world, people would occasionally be permitted to fly over pigeons.
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If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
CHARLES DICKENS
There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
GEORGE HERBERT
If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.
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We are not even worried that we would be subject to future waves of job cuts, if there were any.
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If there was no discrimination in the application of the law, we would have no problem with it. But ...
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If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.
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There is no safety this side of the grave
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There is no safety this side of the grave.
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No living thing is ugly in this world. Even a tarantula considers itself beautiful
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There would be no music.
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Love iz like the meazles; we kant have it bad but onst, and the later in life we have it the tuffer ...
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Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughe...
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Laffing iz the sensation ov pheeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot
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The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates
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Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if thare want ennything but contentment in his world, man w...
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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for
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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up...
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Reason often makes mistakes but conscience never does.
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The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust
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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
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Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well
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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined
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Knowledge is like money: the more one gets, the more one craves.
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Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
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Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy a...
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Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way
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Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's ...
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As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well
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Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
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The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
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Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
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the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
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Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
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