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    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    ― Garrison Keillor
    tags: humor, religion
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    Michael Langlois
    “We all have different faces that we show to the world, but we often don’t realize just how little control we have over which one we wear at any given time.”
    ― Michael Langlois, Bad Radio
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    Carolyn McCray
    “had always said a deceitful tongue was like armor made of oiled paper. It shimmered and looked pretty in the light, but once the flame of truth brushed against it, there was nothing left but smoke.”
    ― Carolyn McCray, 7 Folds of Winter
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    Don Hoesel
    “Because the power of God does not fade over time, Dr. Hawthorne,”
    ― Don Hoesel, Elisha's Bones
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Elizabeth C. Mock
    “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you for tripping me while I tried to run away.”
    ― Elizabeth C. Mock, Shatter
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    Elizabeth C. Mock
    “The world forgets. We always forget. We say that we won’t forget, but we do. We go about our lives, and the daily petty details wipe our memories of the things we should never forget.”
    ― Elizabeth C. Mock, Render
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    Elizabeth C. Mock
    “What good is knowing the truth, if you hide it? If you speak it to no one?”
    ― Elizabeth C. Mock, Render
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    Elizabeth C. Mock
    “People like to accept answers that align with their own suspicions. They like answers that they don’t have to really consider before accepting, because they’re more concerned with the cares that are directly in front of them.”
    ― Elizabeth C. Mock, Render
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    J.A. Konrath
    “Funny thing about regrets. I don’t lament what I’ve done, but rather, what I didn’t do.”
    ― J.A. Konrath, Rusty Nail
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    C.S. Lewis
    “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: christianity, god, religion
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    Bill Cosby
    “A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.”
    ― Bill Cosby
    tags: funny
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    Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    “If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
    ― Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    tags: beatnik, cynical, funny, humour
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    Billy Sunday
    “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”
    ― Billy Sunday, "Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ
    tags: automobile, car, funny, humor, religious
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    Oliver Goldsmith
    “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
    ― Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith
    tags: misattributed-to-confucius, success
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  • #16
    “growing old was mandatory but growing up was optional.”
    ― Carl A. Sparks, Rescue Flight
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    Joseph R. Lallo
    “knowledge of the evils of old is the only protection against their return.”
    ― Joseph R. Lallo, The Book of Deacon
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    Zig Ziglar
    “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
    ― Zig Ziglar
    tags: attention, direction, focus, inspirational, motivational
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    Rex Stout
    “The avoidance of idiocy should be the primary and constant concern of every intelligent person. It is mine. I am sometimes successful.”
    ― Rex Stout, The Rubber Band
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    “God doesn’t call the qualified. He qualifies those he calls.” All”
    ― Larkin Spivey, Stories of Faith and Courage from World War II
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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  • #23
    “Courage is fear that has said its prayers.” And”
    ― Larkin Spivey, Stories of Faith and Courage from World War II
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    Marilyn Monroe
    “Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    James D. Hornfischer
    “Kurita knew that heavenly influences could be counted upon to trump human planning. In war, events seldom cooperate with expectation. Given”
    ― James D. Hornfischer, The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
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    Abraham Lincoln
    “My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    tags: inspirational, philosophical, politics, religion, religious
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  • #28
    “clergyman who expressed the hope that the “Lord was on our side.” Lincoln responded, “I am not at all concerned about that, for I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord’s side.” How”
    ― Thomas Freiling, Walking with Lincoln: Spiritual Strength from America's Favorite President
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    “You boys remind me of a farmer friend of mine in Illinois, who said he could never understand why the Lord put the curl in a pig’s tail. It never seemed to him to be either useful or ornamental, but he reckoned the Almighty knew what he was doing when he put it there.” In other words, notes Wilson in Lincoln’s Sword, “Just because we can’t understand the purpose of things, however insignificant, doesn’t mean that there is none.” We”
    ― Thomas Freiling, Walking with Lincoln: Spiritual Strength from America's Favorite President
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  • #30
    “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
    ― Tracie Peterson, City of Angels
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