"Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man."
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"There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!"
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"Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as a thruth that they knew and acted upon. Verily it was another world then, but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls. We shall have to go in search of them again or worse in all ways shall befall us."
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"Beer soothes the upset soul."
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"There are just times when your body and your soul feed into a character and you somehow meet at the point where that character truly lives in you. It happens in plays, in TV, in films."
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"Music...This is the favorite passion of my soul."
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"I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country."
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"You pray best when the mirror of your soul is empty of every image except the Image of the Invisible Father."
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"Google has you at a very specific mental state that is, looking for something. And what they've always been able to say is, we deliver your message at the exact time someone is, say, looking for fishing hooks or looking for marriage counseling or looking for a lawyer for a particular problem. And here we have our customers telling you what is in their heart and soul. It's something that, you know, advertisers have wanted for decades."
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"More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn't get any better than that."
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"In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's continually retold in an accent too thick and strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke my friends. The soul is the punch line."
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"We approach the divine by enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains."
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"Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of being unencumbered upon the land."
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"That’s the really annoying thing about love. I probably would be happier if I didn’t know it, but once you do know it, once you feel those things for someone, you can’t make yourself really wish it away. It’s like wishing away . . . your soul. - Jenny"
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"A certain giving up of control is good for the soul."
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"Questions for the lord, why he don't like me, guard my soul, Though my life was hard with no remorse."
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"And what they believe in real life is complicated. Theodor Koch-Grunberg wrote in his diary that indigenous peoples in the Amazon see these outsiders following in each other's footsteps as the same person, a single soul traversing across several lives. They also see time as something that doesn't proceed inexorably into the future."
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"Yes ...I am a demon. There's no way I could understand my prey, a human's sense of taste. What I understand is...only the taste of a human's soul."
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"I do not need a thousand souls, I only need one, which is my master's."
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"Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's."
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