W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
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Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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Kizzy wanted it all so bad her soul leaned half out of her body hungering after it, and that was what drove the goblins wild, her soul hanging out there like an untucked shirt.
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I don't listen to music, and I don't particularly watch television, so if anyone wants to come over and just hang out with me sitting at the table in silence, you know, eating a dish of rice... I don't get too many takers.
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The God of Israel is King of kings and Lord of lords... He know, and foreknows, all things, and his foreknowledge is foreordination; he, therefore, will have the last word, both in world history and in the destiny of every man; his kingdom and righteousness will triumph in the end, for neither men nor angels shall be able to thwart him.
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I believe that God is very real. I believe that I live my life every day inside the reality of this God. I call this God by different words. I describe God as the source of life and the source of love and the ground of being.
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A god that can be understood is not a god.
