Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.
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Syrian influence has not ended yet. It is going to be a very long path.
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The Cause of God is not a theatrical display that is presented every hour, of which some new diversion may be asked for every day. If it were thus, the Cause of God would become mere child's play.
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It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.
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For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.
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The best vision is insight.
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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
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You'll get a kid in Liberia wearing a Tupac T-shirt, and for us, that's zef. People try to say it's like trash, but it's not really trash. It's putting things together you think are cool.
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In our family, we've always been owned by border collies, or dogs of one kind or another, and have rescued many dogs. We've lived in the woods and sometimes have had as many as 70 sled dogs. Or had six or seven dogs living in the house. Dogs have saved my life on more than one occasion - and I mean that literally.
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Not all roles you do can be chocolate sweet.
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I was very fortunate to have some great mentors. A father that was always in my life set the example every day at home. Everybody asks me, 'What was your role model?' My role model slept 20 feet from me every night. I could always go talk to him and ask him questions no matter what it was about.
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I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
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If you feel proud, let it be in the thought that you are the servant of God, the son of God. Great men have the nature of a child. They are always a child before Him; so they are free from pride. All their strength is of God and not their own. It belongs to Him and comes from Him.
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Taking responsibility gives me a sense of control.
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A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.
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A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others.
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There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
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It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.
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There needs to be passion behind what you're doing or it's not worth it.
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Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today.
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With me, what you see is what you get.
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She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees an shrubs, pouring out from under furniture, only reaching the sky when the spaces near the ground were full.
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Ventre affamé n'a point d'oreilles.
