"Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it."
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"For a while you get mad, then you get over it."
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"I'm a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge."
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"Crying never helped anybody do anything, okay? You have a problem, you face it like a man."
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"When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things."
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"The only weapon we have is comedy."
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"I want you to know that this administration is motivated by a political philosophy that sees the greatness of America in you, her people, and in your families, churches, neighborhoods, communities - the institutions that foster and nourish values like concern for others and respect for the rule of law under God."
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"Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of religion, it should be as Jesus says, "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret"."
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"Me, what's that after all? An arbitrary limitation of being bounded by the people before and after and on either side. Where they leave off I begin, and vice versa."
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"To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live."
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"Why pamper life's complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?"
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"My own philosophy is that one should share what wisdom he has, one should help others to help themselves and one should keep going despite heavy weather, for there is always a calm ahead."
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"The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves."
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"The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact."
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"Who needs the sun, when the rain is so full of life?"
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"If you have to ask for something more than once or twice, it wasn't yours in the first place. And that's hard to accept when you love someone."
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"The wise trusts not only to his physical eyes - thus he can see clearly."
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"Once Chuang Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Chuang Chou. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakeable Chuang Chou. But he didn't know if he was Chuang Chou who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Chou."
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"The economic philosophy of black nationalism only means that our people need to be re-educated into the importance of controlling the economy of the community in which we live, which means that we won't have to constantly be involved in picketing and boycotting other people in other communities in order to get jobs."
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"That's always been my philosophy. - I've never thought of the consequences of a necessary action."
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