"I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow."

God, Nation, Race, Rest

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"I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow."

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"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest."

Herodotus, Greek Historian

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"There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance."

Thomas Pynchon, American Writer

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"I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair."

James Lipton, American Educator

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"Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it."

Joseph Smith, Jr., American Clergyman

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Linus Torvalds, Finnish Businessman

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"The groves were God's first temples."

William C. Bryant, American Poet

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"But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did , I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god."

Larry Hagman, American Actor

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"The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish Philosopher

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"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews."

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"Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance."

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"That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front."

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"I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe."

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"I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow."

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"My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine."

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"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."

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"For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own."

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"If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write."

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"Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like."

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