Thomas Hardy Quotes
		
	
	
		
	
	
	
		It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Thomas Hardy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				C. S. Lewis
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ted Olson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Cameron Mathison
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Adam Carolla
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Origen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sallust
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
		
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		The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Galsworthy
			
		
	
	
	 
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		As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Colin Baker
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm not sure God wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to love, and be loved. But we are like children, thinking our toys will make us happy and the whole world is our nursery. Something must drive us out of that nursery and into the lives of others, and that something is suffering.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				C. S. Lewis
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The amygdala is one of those brain structures that a lot of people know a little bit about, and there's a definite tendency to conflate the amygdala and the fear response itself - as if the amygdala, and the amygdala alone, 'causes' fear.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sam Kean
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Abraham Lincoln
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Thomas Hardy