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I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.


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Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.



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The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.



It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.



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...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.



To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.



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I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.



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Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?



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A sort of good-bye without saying good-bye," he said. "It is a reference to a passage in the Bible. 'And Mizpah, for he said, the Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another.



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The only thing I can worry about is my swimming pool and keeping the leaves out of my swimming pool. I can't worry about what's happened to my neighbors.



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I trow that countenance cannot lie,Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.

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I think it's going to be great if people can buy a ticket to fly up and see black sky and the stars. I'd like to do it myself-but probably after it has flown a serious number of times first!



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It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.

It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.



Remember that God under the Law ordained a Lamb to be offered up to Him every Morning and Evening.

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