Though painting borrows help indeed from colours. . . it has nothing more wide of its real aim … - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

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Being overly sensitive to rejection can become a destructive virus.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

Though painting borrows help indeed from colours. . . it has nothing more wide of its real aim or more remote from its intention than to make a show of colours. . . to raise a separate and flattering pleasure to the sense.

Aim, Borrows, Helping, Painting, Real

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All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings.

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As accidental as my life may be, or as that random humor is, which governs it, I know nothing, after all, so real or substantial as myself

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Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.

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The truth of the matter is that although not all Muslims are terrorists, unfortunately, in today's world, most of the terrorists - 99 per cent - are Muslim.

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And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.

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A group is as healthy as its 'social contract' is clear; a congregation as faithful as its covenant is mutually understood; a pastor as effective as the pastor's and people's commitment to trust and integrity is honored, guarded, and fulfilled.

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