The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal. - Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don't live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal.

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democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.

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Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.

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. . . the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.

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Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

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Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

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