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As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.

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Holly Black

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Flower, Jewels, Lying, Memories, Mischief, Slips

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He wondered whether growing up was learning that most stories turned out to be lies.

Growing, Growing Up, Lying, Stories, Turned

Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.

Life, Long, Long Life, Saved, Though, Times

If they were real, then maybe the world was big enough to have magic in it. And if there was magic — even bad magic, and Zach knew it was more likely that there was bad magic than any good kind — then maybe not everyone had to have a story like his father's, a story like the kind all the adults he knew told, one about giving up and growing bitter.

Big, Enough, Father, Giving Up, Real, Story

I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.

Hurt, Kind, Thinking, Thought, Want

There’s people who do things and people who never do—who say they will someday, but they just don’t. I want to go on a quest. I’ve always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I’m not backing down from it. I’m not going home until it’s complete.

Backing, Complete, Goes On, Home, People, Things

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Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all these were in a state devoid of reason or measure, but when the work of setting in order this Universe was being undertaken, fire and water and earth and air, although possessing some traces of their known nature, were yet disposed as everything is likely to be in the absence of God; and inasmuch as this was then their natural condition, God began by first marking them out into shapes by means of forms and numbers.

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I love John Stamos. John's a really friendly, cool dude.

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As image and apprehension are in organic unity, so, for a Christian, are human body and human soul.

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If there are sound reasons or bases for the points you demand, then there is no need for violence. On the other hand, when there is no sound reason that concessions should be made to you but mainly your own desire, then reason cannot work and you have to rely on force. Thus using force is not a sign of strength but rather a sign of weakness.

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