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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."

"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."

"What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth."

"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."

"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."

"My truth could be very different than your truth."

"There is no failure in life. It is only an experience."
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