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"The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins."
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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."
"It is better to be slave to righteousness of God than sin of satan."
"If there is anything the leaders in the society or the nations must take note of is to know the importance of justice."
"In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange."
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"This may be the curse of the human race, not that we are so different from one another, but that we are so alike."
"Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless."
"That was how we spoke, my mother and I: in puns and games and rhymes. In, you might say, lyrics. This was our tragedy. We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny. We were tinpan alleycats, but the gift of music had been withheld. We could not sing along, though we always knew the words. Still, defiantly, we roared our tuneless roars, we fell off the high notes and were trampled by the low ones. And if bitter ices were the consequence, well, there were worse fates in the world than that."
"One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable."
"Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment."
"The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins."
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