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“I've started to look at life differently. When you're thanking God for every little you - every meal, every time you wake up, every time you take a sip of water - you can't help but be more thankful for life itself, for the unlikely and miraculous fact that you exist at all.”
Source : A J Jacobs (2012). “The Year of Living Biblically”, p.165, Random House
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“The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'”
Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial
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“Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.”
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“That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.”
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“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”
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“English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.”
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“Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.”
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“Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction...”
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“The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.”