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H. G. Wells Writer
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"Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break."

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Judith Butler Philosopher, Gender Theorist
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"Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision."

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"For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it's like bindweed. It grows with no encouragement at all, under any conditions, and just strangles everything else."

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Rich Mullins Musician
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"Love is a virtue and not a feeling. It is fed and fired by God- not by the favorable response of the beloved. Even when it doesn't seem to make a dime's worth of difference to the ones on whom it is lavished, it is still the most prized of all virtues because it is at the heart of the very character of God."

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Ziggy Marley Musician
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"I don't condemn and I don't convert. I've been searching through books and bibles to find what this life is worth, and I've made up my mind: Love is my religion. You can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it. Love is my religion"

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Judah Smith Pastor
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"God's love is so extravagant and so inexplicable that he loved us before we were us. He loved us before we existed. He knew many of us would reject him, hate him, curse him, rebel against him. Yet he chose to love us. God loves us because he is love."

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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer
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"My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it."

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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
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"Therefore once for all this short command is given to you. 'Love and do what you will.' If you keep silent, keep silent by love; if you speak, speak by love; if you correct, correct by love; if you pardon, pardon by love: let love be rooted in you, and from the root nothing but good can grow."

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