Homer Quotes
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One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.
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To solve a marriage problem, you have to talk with each other about it, choosing wisely the time and place. But when accusations and lengthy speeches of defense fill the dialogue, the partners are not talking to each other but past each other. Take care to listen more than you speak. If you still can't agree on a solution, consider asking a third party, without a vested interest, to mediate.
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If you are of the truth, if you have learned the truth, if you see the sanctity of the truth, then speak truth. We are not called to be deceivers or liars. God is a God of truth, and His people are called to have an enormously high standard of truth.
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A married person does not live in isolation. He or she has made a promise, a pledge, a vow, to another person. Until that vow is fulfilled and the promise is kept, the individual is in debt to his marriage partner. That is what he owes. 'You owe it to yourself' is not a valid excuse for breaking a marriage vow but a creed of selfishness.
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Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.
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What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?
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I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.
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In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free.
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For every action there’s a reaction. And also, for every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism.
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In the early stages of wealth, up to 10 years after individuals became very rich, they display a bit of reluctance to spend money. It's a lot easier rationalizing spending a lot for a house.
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I had no idea what I was going to do when they threw me out of school.
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We don't want to merely obey God: we need to catch His heart. It is then we will glimpse the wisdom behind His directives, and not just see them as laws.
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Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need.
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A custom-tailored suit retains a certain dignity about it.
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They can boo me, yell at me, and throw peanuts at me, as long as they pay to get in.
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I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.
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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
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One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.
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I feel Aleister Crowley is a misunderstood genius of the 20th century. Because his whole thing was liberation of the person, of the entity, and that restrictions would foul you up, lead to frustration which leads to violence, crime, mental breakdown, depending on what sort of makeup you have underneath. The further this age we're in now gets into technology and alienation, a lot of the points he's made seem to manifest themselves all down the line.
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The safest place to be is in the center of God's will.
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No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
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Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?
