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A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.


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To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light.

To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light.



One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.



Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!

Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!



Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes.

Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes.



It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.

It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.



A woman is a foreign land.

A woman is a foreign land.



The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon's heightIs not so sweet and whiteAs the most heretofore sin-spotted SoulThat darts to its delightStraight from the absolution of a faithful fight.

The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon's heightIs not so sweet and whiteAs the most heretofore sin-spotted SoulThat darts to its delightStraight from the absolution of a faithful fight.



Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving.

Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving.



The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn.

The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn.



Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.





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Stop waiting. Feel everything. Love achingly. Give impeccably. Let go.



It doesn't matter what medium I perform, I just love to perform in general, if it's good work.

It doesn't matter what medium I perform, I just love to perform in general, if it's good work.



Pompeii has nothing to teach us, we know crack of volcanic fissure, slow flow of terrible lava, pressure on heart, lungs, the brain about to burst its brittle case (what the skull can endure!)

Pompeii has nothing to teach us, we know crack of volcanic fissure, slow flow of terrible lava, pressure on heart, lungs, the brain about to burst its brittle case (what the skull can endure!)



For more than a half a century, we know that we prospered because of a bipartisan consensus on defense and foreign policy. We must do more than return to that sensible, cooperative approach.

For more than a half a century, we know that we prospered because of a bipartisan consensus on defense and foreign policy. We must do more than return to that sensible, cooperative approach.



But my brother Joey was there, and my sister Tina Nina Minnelli was there.

But my brother Joey was there, and my sister Tina Nina Minnelli was there.



Everyone loves a mysterious country.

Everyone loves a mysterious country.



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To be a top-class athlete, you have to train hard, you have to eat right, you have to get enough rest. I feel the way golf is going nowadays, you have to treat yourself as an athlete.



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Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.



It's hard to understand the films that you're in, because you never truly get to see them.

It's hard to understand the films that you're in, because you never truly get to see them.



My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.

My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.




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