"Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it."

Charles de Montesquieu, French Philosopher

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"Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it."

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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence."

Johannes Sebastian Bach, German Composer

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"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity."

Julie Harris, American Actress

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"Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day."

Ramakrishna, Indian Leader

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"I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system."

Gerrit Smith, American Politician

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"God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction."

Harold Brodkey, American Author

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"It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us."

Tupac Shakur, American Musician

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"Useless laws weaken the necessary laws."

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"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window."

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"False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared."

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"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."

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"In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state."

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"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations."

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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."

"Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence."

"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."

"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

"God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity."

"Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day."

"I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system."

"God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction."

"It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us."

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"Useless laws weaken the necessary laws."

"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window."

"False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared."

"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."

"In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state."

"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations."

"We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death."

"The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver."

"The severity of the laws prevents their execution."

"To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them."