Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

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People associate feminism with hate - with man hate - and that's really negative. I don't think that's what feminism is about at all - it's really positive. I think that's why women became reluctant to use the word.

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I am not ignorant of what is said of my Lord in the Psalm: "You destroy those who speak a lie." And again: "A lying mouth deals death to the soul." And likewise the Lord says in the Gospel: "On the day of judgment men shall render account for every idle word they utter."

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Problems always appear big when incompetent men are working on them.

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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

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The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.

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In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

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So what’s the use of repentance, and what do you care for goodness, and what if you should die in a quake, so who the hell cares? So I walked downtown, so these were the high buildings, so let the earthquake come, let it bury me and my sins, so who the hell cares? No good to God or man, die one way or another, a quake or a hanging, it didn’t matter why or when or how.

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Whether life grinds a man down or polishes him depends on what he's made of.

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The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.

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