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“I gave up smoking four years, two weeks, and five days ago. But who misses it?”
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“Anger can offer a sense of indignity to replace a sense of shame, and offer a voice—raised above others—which can finally be heard. Those voices are most effective when they are raised in unison, when they have mercy as well as anger behind them, and when, instead of roaring at the anger of old pain, they sing about the glorious possibilities of a future where anger has a smaller house than hope.”
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“... a religious life is a combat, not a hymn.”
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“A whole lot of us go through life assuming that we are basically right, basically all the time, about basically everything: about our political and intellectual convictions, our religious and moral beliefs, our assessments of other people, our memories, our grasp of facts. As absurd as it sounds when we stop to think about it, our steady state seems to be one of unconsciously assuming that we are very close to omniscient.”
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“Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.”
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“It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.”
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“Flight is but momentary escape from the eternal custody of earth.”
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“Tell me what you want, and I'll tell you who you think you are. Tell me what you fear, and I'll tell you who you really are.”