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«Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there is such a thing as truth, and justice is as measured and faultless as a clock. Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood /for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.»
Author: Graham Greene
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clock, complicated, contradictory, defeated, details, disappointing, faultless, formed, Grown up, heroes, in the long run, long run, No Hero, of our own, promised, rule book, satisfy, simplicities, swordsman, The Long Run, The Rules
«God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.»
«A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.»
«Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
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Education,
Ignorance
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discovery, Discovery of, of our own, progressive, Progressives, The Progressive
«Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure. At least we will be able to prevent the advent of negative conduct dominated by negative emotion. That is 'shila', or moral ethics. Once we develop this by familiarizing ourselves with it, along with mindfulness and conscientiousness, eventually that pattern and way of life will become a part of our own life.»
Author: Dalai Lama
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advent, combating, conscientiousness, defensive, defensive measure, dominated, dominated by, ethics, eventually, familiarize, familiarizes, familiarizing, mindfulness, of our own, pattern, self-discipline, The Conduct of Life, way of life
«At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will.»
Author: Thomas Merton
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belongs, brutalities, center, disposal, disposes, dispose of, disposing, entirely, fantasies, inaccessible, nothingness, of our own, Point of, spark, The Center, untouched
«But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.»
Author: Bible
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cities, fathers, incense, incensed, Jerusalem, Judah, kings, Kings and Queens, King and Queen, offerings, of our own, plenty, pour, pour forth, pour out, princes, queen, Queen of, Queen of Heaven, the Queen, The Streets, victual, victuals, whatsoever
«EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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assure, bearer, damnation, evangelist, Evangelists, Good Neighbors, neighbors, of our own, particularly, salvation, such as, The Good Neighbor, tidings
«For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do -- they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.»
Author: John Updike
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female, female body, glowing, messages, necessities, of our own, signaling