"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!"

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"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!"

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"Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."

Lord Byron, British Poet

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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal."

Arthur Keith, Scottish Scientist

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"Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals."

William Blake, English Poet

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"Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this."

Nicholas Sparks, American Author

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"A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away."

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"In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime."

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"A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train."

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"Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same."

Gossip, Lovers, Race, Scandal

"Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man."

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"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!"

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"Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause."

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"Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child."

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"When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion."

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"Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable."

Tolerance,