Chuck Smith
Author
"Ritualism is nothing more than a rut and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the length and the depth."
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Ruts
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Robin Williams
Actor, Comedian
"It's hotter than a snake's ass in a wagon rut."
Frances Harper
Author, Activist
"True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warming and glitter without vivifying."
Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
"We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us."
Joyce Meyer
Author, Speaker
"Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut."
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"Were marriage no more than a convenient screen for sexuality, some less cumbersome and costly protection must have been found by this time to replace it. One concludes therefore that people do not marry to cohabit; they cohabit to marry. They do not seek freedom to rut so much as they seek the rut of wedlock."
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"How many times have I failed before? How many times have I stood here like this, in front of my own image, in front of my own person, trying to convince him not to be scared, to go on, to get out of this rut? How many times before I finally convince myself, how many private, erasable deaths will I need to die, how may self-murders is it going to take, how many times will I have to destroy myself before I learn, before I understand?"
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"...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds."
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"You won't skid if you stay in a rut."
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"I get into a rut, unable to yank my mind out of it."
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"...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!"
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