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"Most people who lose their lives because life might be down for them only refuse to know what a tuber of yam that is put into the soil goes through before it comes up as a fresh green creeping plant to bear yet another bigger tuber."

"Your this beautiful ship that will sail a long way, and I'd only be your anchor""A ship without an anchor can never be at rest."

"What runs through a person like water through a sieve."

"Like the cotton-carder who combs tangled cotton into a long bundle of fibre, you take all my knotted fragments and comb them into light."

"Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things."

"When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor."
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"We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain."


"Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others."


"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."


"Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again."


"Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty."
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