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Almost everybody I know has died,” Grandma said. “Bunch of wimps. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

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Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome. ↗

— Randy Pausch

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Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

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(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.) ↗

— Tina Fey

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Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out. ↗

— Blaize Clement

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To reject Christ because the church has sin of this sort in it is like rejecting hospitals because they are full of sick people. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

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They wouldn’t even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters. ↗

— Douglas Adams

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God also cheers when we come to him with our wobbling, unsteady prayers. Jesus does not say, “Come to me, all you who have learned how to concentrate in prayer, whose minds no longer wander, and I will give you rest. ↗

— Paul Miller

#life

The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there. ↗

— Richard Rohr

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It was not a safe thing to lead Joe into temptation; he had no resistance to it at all. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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