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"He's the man we were in search of, that's true, and yet he's not the man we were in search of. For the man we were in search of was not the man we wanted."
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"Christianity is not an accretion, it is not something added. It is a new total outlook which is satisfied with nothing less than penetration to the furthest corners of the mind and the understanding."
"By the 1960s the United States had a new ruling class-the teenager!"
"A great problem in America is that we have an anemic and watered-down Christianity that has produced an anemic, watered-down, and spineless Christian who is not willing to stand up and be counted on every issue."
"The whole world ought to know the story of the Bible."
"Many people turn to alcohol to try to drown the [cries] and longings of the soul. Others attempt to quiet the longings of their souls in other ways. Nothing but God ever completely satisfies, because the soul is made for God."
"Old age is Satan's last chance to blow us off course."
"The central theme of the Bible is salvation, and the central personality of the Bible is Christ."
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act."
"I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals of the middle class"
"You're going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It's the hardest role in the world."
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"You are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness."
"All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; and some spirit within her rose automatically as the sap in the twigs. It was unexpected youth, surging up anew after its temporary check, and bringing with it hope, and the invincible instinct towards self-delight."
"I look into my glass,And view my wasting skin,And say, 'Would God it came to passMy heart had shrunk as thin!"
"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."
"Ah, dear Jude; that's because you are like a totally deaf manobserving people listening to music. You say 'What are theyregarding? Nothing is there.' But something is."
"I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the highest form of affection is based on full sincerity on both sides. Not being men, these women don't know that in looking back on those he has had tender relations with, a man's heart returns closest to her who was the soul of truth in her conduct. The better class of man, even if caught by airy affectations of dodging and parrying, is not retained by them. A Nemesis attends the woman who plays the game of elusiveness too often, in the utter contempt for her that, sooner or later, her old admirers feel; under which they allow her to go unlamented to her grave."
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