God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Anonymity is a wonderful thing if you can hang on to it. I live in Pasadena where we try to keep the movie people out. We discourage them from moving in our neighborhood and if they do we burn effigies on their lawns.
Joe Johnston
LivePeopleMovingYouBurnTry
I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.
John C. Calhoun
PositiveGoodPeaceI AmWarEvil
When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more universal stories.' But anything can happen to a Chinese American girl - just as much of the canon of English literature involves white men or women.
Jenny Zhang
WomenGirlMenWritingAmericanYou
Businesses have moved from doing business to doing lobbying, and I think that's a very bad thing.
Angus Deaton
BusinessThinkDoingBadLobbying
Tribalism reflects strong ethnic or cultural identities that separate members of one group from another, making them loyal to people like them and suspicious of outsiders, which undermines efforts to forge common cause across groups.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
PeopleStrongGroupForgeCommon
After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself.
Rufus Wainwright
MyselfCleaningYearsUpHotels
Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.
Mary Astell
GoodBestOpinionThinkBodyWay
The shows weren't organized at all. They just happened.
Lonnie Donegan
OrganizedJustHappenedShowsWere
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
Douglas Sirk
BeautyArtPoliticsYouFrozenIdea
Whenever you write a true story, it's not going to go over 100 percent well with everybody.
Christopher Markus
StoryYouGoTrueWriteOver
You know, chemo and radiation is a very tough customer. It does so much good, but it also does a lot of damage.
Cindy McCain
GoodToughCustomerYouKnowDamage
Belief in God is an elementary form of selflessness - the acknowledgement of responsibility toward a hypothetical 'Other'.
Brian Stableford
GodResponsibilityBeliefElementary
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