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"I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?"

"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."

"From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it."

"Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!"

"I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober."

"I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences."
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"The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done."

"The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church."

"Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient."

"Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying."

"To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves."

"It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men."

"Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven."

"Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition."

"Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it."
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