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So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books. ↗

— George Stephen

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Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

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You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of "getting along." ↗

— John Shelby Spong

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I learned early in life that you get places by having the right enemies. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

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Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

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I live on the other side of Charles Darwin and I can no longer see human light as having been created perfect and falling into sin, I see us rather emerging into higher and higher levels of consciousness and higher and higher levels of complication. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#charles #complication #consciousness #created #darwin

The Christ path is the path I've walked all my life, so it's normal and natural. And I have no reason to abandon it because it leads to where I want to go. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

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The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

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Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#enhances #evil #good #life #whatever

Actually, after the release of the Bond film, the producers came back to me to offer me another one, but I didn't have any juice left for an immediate encore. ↗

— Roger Spottiswoode

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