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“Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice.”
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“All the human beings I met were either sure that there would be no afterlife or else that they would get preferential treatment in the hereafter.”
Source : Philip Jose Farmer (2010). “Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat”, p.24, Macmillan
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“If I were to just focus on stand-up, I could actually, paradoxically enough, be home way more, because I would leave on a Friday, go do a couple theaters Friday, Saturday, maybe Sunday, come home.”
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“To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.”
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“A few doors away was the Baptist Church, and as I walked towards it I began to think that people didn't want me to share their church. As I walked through the Baptist door I was tense, waiting for that tap on the shoulder…but instead I was given a hymn book and welcomed into the church. I sat through the service…This up and down treatment wasn't doing my nerves much good.”
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“There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.”
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“I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it”
Source : Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.85, Golgotha Press
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“It's a lifestyle, it's something you do the rest of your life," LaLanne said. "How long are you going to keep breathing? How long do you keep eating? You just do it.”
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“Don't always worry what your next line is going to be.”
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“We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us.”
