Carolyn Hax (Carolyn Hanley Hax) Quotes
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I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.
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If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.
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Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember.
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Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.
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It's easy enough to make the truth look silly. A man never seems more foolish-like than he does when he's speaking his whole mind and heart.
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In the Far East, it's very normal for people to wear masks in flu season. I don't know if I'd ever do that, though, because I don't like having things on my face.
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There's very few people, who really thrive creatively under great stress and conflict.
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It's sick that I experienced a once in a lifetime love - still as strong as the day it happened - & have been punished every single day since.
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Washington society has always demanded less and given more than any society in this country--demanded less of applause, deference,etiquette, and has accepted as current coin quick wit, appreciative tact, and a talent for talking.
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There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.
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The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard.
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Now, see there. Just because I'm wearing my Super-Dike sweatshirt, you think I'm a lesbian. I guess if I were wearing a string of pearls, you'd think I was an oyster.
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Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.
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(Grief) is something you never really get over, but you put it in a place inside you and deal with it in the way you have to.
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I don't know what the vintage Sonic Youth sound is.
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Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.
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The Greek philosophies teach us that we are a combination of dark and light, good and evil, and murderer and savior, hmm? And until we know this completely about ourselves we cannot love well, and we cannot forgive ourselves.
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There are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.