Walker Percy
Author, Novelist
"Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion."
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Diversion
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Blaise Pascal
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
"If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy."
Brother Lawrence
Monk, Cook
"Think often on God, by day, by night, in your business and even in your diversions. He is always near you and with you; leave him not alone."
Joseph Conrad
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion."
Desmond Tutu
Theologian, Activist
"God is not a diversion."
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"Just then Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary."
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"What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test."
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