Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase. - Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

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Speak Peace sums up decades of healing and peacework. It would be hard to list all the kinds of people who can benefit from reading this book, because it's really any and all of us.

Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.

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The crimes of extreme civilization are probably worse than those of extreme barbarism, because of their refinement, the corruption they presuppose, and their superior degree of intellectuality.

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Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage.

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They had. . . finished their lives before their death - which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end.

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The artist's morality lies in the force and truth of his description.

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The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.

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The purely material world seems to have more in common than we with the unchanging and everlasting years of the Great Creator. Yet we know that it is not so. In reality the rocks are less enduring than man. Each man's personal self will still survive for weal or woe, when another catastrophe shall have utterly changed the surface of this planet, and the elements shall have melted with fervent heat, and the earth also and all things that are therein shall have been burnt up.

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June Allyson

[On Ronald Reagan:] Jane Wyman seemed more upset with her husband's obsession with politics than I. I tried to make her laugh. 'He'll outgrow it,' I told her. To her it wasn't funny.

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Rob Bell

Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners.

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Elaine Stritch

I love holidays in New York. I love `em. I want to celebrate something all the time and New York has holidays for every day of the week, practically. I like holidays in New York City.

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