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God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING As an individual passes from one situation to another, his [sic] world, his environment, expands or ... JOHN DEWEY The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of whic... JOHANN VON GOETHE Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of whic... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE I wish I was home", She said miserably. She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the only thing that ... JOHN FOWLES Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE Video games are a special kind of play, but at root, they're about the same things as other game... TOM CHATFIELD Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not bei... MARY OLIVER Everyone has something of beauty about them. But loving lets you look, and look, and look again. You... ALLY CONDIE Every thing is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God ... MUHAMMAD IQBAL There is a very delicate line between pornography and beauty. A naked woman is not necessarily porno... OSHO Discipline 'makes' individuals; it is the specific technique of a power that regards individuals bot... MICHEL FOUCAULT You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that... So, what next!?... DEYTH BANGER If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. A... RICHARD PETTY Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi... DEYTH BANGER The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the co... RAINER MARIA RILKE PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS To a synthetic chemist, the complex molecules of nature are as beautiful as any of her other creatio... ELIAS JAMES COREY People think that Detroit is this barren wasteland. While there are parts that are not as nice as ot... STEVEN YEUN Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, ... DOROTHY ALLISON There are types of people who want to have leverage over other people's lives. For no other reason t... C. JOYBELL C. Prayer's value is not that it makes challenges go away, but that it changes my perception and e... PHYLLIS EDGERLY RING People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so tha... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ... JOHN MUIR Beauty" and sexuality are both commonly misunderstood as some transcendent inevitable fact; falsely ... NAOMI WOLF Two halves have little choice but to join; And yes, they do make a whole but two wholes when t... PETER MCWILLIAMS but as you get to know St. Charles County, you learn that there are a lot of organizations and peopl... DAVID ROSS And what good is a voice when so few will listen? STACEY JAY We as humans do not love the objects and desires of life. We are in love with the consciousness that... JACK TYME Today, young girls measure the quality of their beauty based upon its entertainment value. The more ... C. JOYBELL C. The beauty of the picture is that there is a little ambiguity in it ... To me it showed compassion b... JAMES COLTON The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Se... 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STEVE ALBINI To my mind, ‘magic’ is the hard-to-define quality of the things that stir up mystical feelings l... BRENDAN MYERS Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... It will be very hard. You’ll make a million mistakes, and you’ll pay for them all, one way or an... DERRICK JENSEN Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS It is important to note that the relevant factor to sexual harassment in this story is not gender id... KATE BORNSTEIN People with Complex PTSD suffer from more severe and frequent dissociation symptoms, as well as memo... SUZETTE BOON Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to h... FIONA APPLE A man breaking his journey between one place and another at a third place of no name, character, pop... TOM STOPPARD Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER Children throw tantrums because they've imagined their 'father in heaven' does so. 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