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		The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Paramahansa Yogananda 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Victor Hugo 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Love is the funeral of hearts. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ville Valo 
			 
			
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		I don't like the road. I love being on the track. I like being indoors and the fact I'm not battling past 200 other riders. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Laura Trott 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I never, ever, ever had deltoids! Oh my God, when I'm doing exercises and I see them pop out, I'm like, Yes! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Valerie Bertinelli 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Brownback 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				H. L. Mencken 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ian Mcewan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				D. H. Lawrence 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hans Urs von Balthasar 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Saint Ignatius 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Warren G. Harding 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sidney Sheldon 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Clericalism has rendered some of Ireland's brightest, most privileged and powerful men either unwilling or unable to address the horrors cited in the Ryan and Murphy Reports. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Enda Kenny 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Dreams grow if you grow. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zig Ziglar 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As human beings, we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions, to judge people too quickly, and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Prince Charles 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walt Whitman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Paramahansa Yogananda