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Let my lips avoid vain repetition as I lift my voice in praise, O Lord. Distract me from my distractions, awaken me from the dullness of mind, and transform habit and routine into vibrant times of worship.

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Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide.

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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.

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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time. . . and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

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It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.

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There are no innocent bystanders.

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Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong - a series of unprecedented horrors perpetrated by so-called Christians: The Inquisition, the Conquistadores, the American Indian wars, slavery, Hiroshima and the present-day Bible Belt.

Christian, Firsts, Tell, War, Wars, Wrong
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