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The true purpose of pain in one's life is to grow strong--in faith, spirit, and emotions.


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H. L. MENCKEN Our Father knew exactly what He was doing when He created us. He made us enough alike to love each o...
SHERI L. DEW If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Very dangerous things, theories.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Trouble shared is trouble halved.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach peo...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.
L. WOLFE GILBERT If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government ...
L. RON HUBBARD I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
L. RON HUBBARD A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in sc...
L. RON HUBBARD A man is as alive as he can communicate.
L. RON HUBBARD One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I ...
L. RON HUBBARD A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of o...
L. RON HUBBARD I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went...
L. RON HUBBARD When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by d...
L. RON HUBBARD There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published w...
L. RON HUBBARD