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Archibald MacLeish

"We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent."

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"We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent."

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"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."

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"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers."

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"Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above."

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"God and other artists are always a little obscure....."

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"If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him."

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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

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"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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"I'm unable to ignore the gift that God gave me, so I'm going to sing."

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"I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion."

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"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered."
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"Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England."
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"What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists."
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"It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be."
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"Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world."
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"Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there."
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"The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself."
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"What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice."
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"We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves."
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"The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity."
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