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The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.
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To justify God's ways to man.
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I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
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The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
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Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
