"Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are."
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"Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time."
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"Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this."
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"A foe to God ne'er was true friend to man, Some sinister intent taints all he does."
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"Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more."
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"If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion."
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"I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me."
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"The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear."
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"An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations."
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"In musical theater, if you have a song, it has to advance the plot. If you have a song in a musical and it does not advance the plot, it gets dropped."
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"Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words"
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"Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge."
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"Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes."
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"I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does."
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"I really don't teach the way Professor [Frank Moore] Cross does. I don't teach the text the same way he does. I teach Biblical themes, Biblical events."
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"Why does it have to be politics? Is there a dynamism to that world and a theoretical capacity to do things that draws many talented people? Absolutely. Are there other ways to be involved and lead an interesting life? Of course."
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"This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237)"
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"This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins."
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"The sun will rise tomorrow. It always does, and all the wishing in the world for the way things were, or for what they could have been, won't change that. It won't change how things are."
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"I never planned to acquire a lot of jewels or a lot of husbands. For me, life happened, just as it does for anyone else."
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