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"Changing a diaper is a lot like getting a present from your grandmother - you're not sure what you've got but you're pretty sure you're not going to like it."

"Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician."

"How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?"

"If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them."

"At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered."

"We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present."
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"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."


"Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same."


"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life."


"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."


"The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year."
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