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"I left a pause. 'You sound like a certain kind of surgeon. A lot more interested in the operation than the patient.' 'I should not like to be in the hands of a surgeon who did not take that view."
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"When we overemphasise miracles we are saying people could get something without qualification and merit."
"Success and greatness in life belongs to those who take responsibility."
"True deliverers identify themselves with the sins of their people, they take the blames upon themselves."
"Any church that is overly emphasizing the role of miracles is encouraging his members to be indolent."
"You shouldn't blame others for the conditions you endure, we each have the freedom to follow which path we desire in life."
"Accept that you can and will do what you must do, to take good care of yourself."
"Only you are responsible for your life and for your life and making it a happy life."
"People who are indifferent about the happenings around them are human biomasses."
"If it is God's business, then it should be your business."
"Accidents and sicknesses are accepted as deserved retribution by the person who has feelings of guilt."
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"There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be."
"When I was going on one day in the car about not having any close friends - using my favourite metaphor: the cage of glass between me and the rest of the world - she just laughed. 'You like it,' she said. 'You say you're isolated, boyo, but you really think you're different."
"Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a bracelet of bright hair about the bone. I did not pray for her, because prayer has no efficacy; I did not cry for her, because only extroverts cry twice; I sat in the silence of that night, that infinite hostility to man, to permanence, to love, remembering her, remembering her."
"Now I understand why you grow so many flowers."She shifted her head, not understanding.I said, "To cover the stink of sulphur."
"There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist."
"Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them."
"Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. Without a clock I say 'I do not know the time' . Without matter time itself is unknowable. Time is a function of matter; and matter therefore is the clock that makes infinity real."
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