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“The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.”
Source : Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.131
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“The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law.”
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“Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives.”
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“Usually I wear my grandma's old aprons, or others I have collected in my travels. When I was young, I would sit and watch my grandma prepare stuff. She wasn't Italian, but she did really good Italian food.”
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“I went to a Catholic school with 40 kids total. There were no cliques, but I suppose I was the sporty good girl.”
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“I verily believe that the kingdom of God advances more on spoken words than it does on essays written and read; on words, that is, in which the present feeling and thought of the teaching mind break into natural and forceful expression.”
Source : Richard Salter Storrs (1875). “Conditions of success in preaching without notes, 3 lects”, p.61
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“Read your work out loud. Don't give me that look. Read your work aloud. Don't argue. Don't fight. It will help. I promise. I promise. I guarantee it. If you find it didn't help you, lemme know. I will let you Taser me in the face. And by "me," I mean, some other guy who will be my stand-in. Probably some real estate agent or tollbooth attendant.”
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“If you'd ever told me that my Broadway debut would be playing Spider-Man, I would have laughed in your face.”
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“The best way to bury your pain is to help others, and to lose yourself in that.”
Source : Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.64, Random House
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“I've always had to prove myself to people growing up. I had to show them that I could do this and I could do that and paying no mind to what the critics said.”