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Sometimes I go to God and say, "God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. God's already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn't pay Him for what He's done for me.
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millenniums
earth
worship
prayer
god
life
truth
inspirational
million
the-truth
pay
ages
done
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A.W. Tozer |
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So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.
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the-truth
good-people
pretending
hypocrisy
human-nature
roles
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Orson Scott Card |
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But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.
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lies
the-truth
stories
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Orson Scott Card |
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In fact he was incurably insane and hallucinated more or less continuously, but by a remarkable stroke of lateral thinking his fellow wizards had reasoned that, in that case, the whole business could be sorted out if only they could find a formula that caused him to hallucinate that he was completely sane.* *This is a very common hallucination, shared by most people.
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the-bursar
the-truth
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Terry Pratchett |
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c82dec9
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But too much reading had taken its toll. William found that he now thought of prayer as a sophisticated way of pleading with thunderstorms.
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terry-pratchett
the-truth
william-de-worde
pratchett
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Terry Pratchett |
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6ae99e7
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That --ing zombie is going to end up on the end of a couple of --ing handy and versatile kebab skewers,' said Mr Tulip. 'An' then I'm gonna put an edge on this --ing spatula. An' then... then I'm gonna get medieval on his arse.' There were more pressing problems, but this one intrigued Mr Pin. 'How, exactly?' he said. 'I thought maybe a maypole,' said Mr Tulip reflectively. 'An' then a display of country dancing, land tillage under the three-filed system, several plagues and, if my --ing hand ain't too tired, the invention of the --ing horse collar.
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terry-pratchett
mr-pin
mr-tulip
the-truth
pratchett
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Terry Pratchett |
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d9405bf
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...but William felt in his bones that you couldn't run a city on the basis of what the Watch liked. The Watch would probably like it if everyone spent their time indoors, with their hands on the table where people could see them.
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terry-pratchett
the-truth
the-city-watch
william-de-worde
pratchett
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Terry Pratchett |
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"I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would have done well in any generation because he would have refused to die in a corner; he would have taken the false gods and made them over; he would have taken the current formulae and forced them into something lesser men thought them incapable of. Alive today he would undoubtedly have written and directed motion pictures, plays, and God knows what. Instead of saying, "This medium is not good," he would have used it and made it good. If some people called some his work cheap (which some of it was), he wouldn't have cared a rap, because he would know that without some vulgarity there is no complete man. He would have hated refinement, as such, because it is always a withdrawal, and he was too tough to shrink from anything."
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integrity
shakespeare
bravery
courage
beautiful-losers
fresh-ideas
great-art
lars-von-trier
porn-as-art
sasha-grey
sex-in-cinema
struggling-artist
struggling-writer
refinement
the-truth
hip-hop
courage-to-be-oneself
modern-art
vulgarity
innovation
pornography
greatness
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Raymond Chandler |