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It took me a long time to not think of the universe as a judgmental debit-credit system. I haven't completely shaken it, but I no longer think that I am overdrawn with God. Grace is not something you earn; its always there. I find this idea a lot more fun.

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It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride?

Joan Collins

UglyPrideBornFaultMustSymbol

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

John C. Maxwell

PrideStubbornYouOthersInside

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.

John Leonard

PainMemoryMindMovingNightSmall

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

Robert Staughton Lynd

SufferingOwnOnlyGloriousThing

Going back to 'The 100' is something I definitely wanted to do because the show is so great, and I'm so grateful to be part of it.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

GreatGratefulBackSomethingGoing

The actual organization of behavior goes on the level of the individual nerve cells and their connections, and we have a hundred billion nerve cells, probably a hundred trillion connections. It's just mind-boggling to think of all the different ways in which they're arranged in a baby's head.

Steven Pinker

BabyOrganizationThinkConnections

All anyone agreed on was that Kurban Said was the pen name of a writer who had probably come from Baku, an oil city in the Caucasus, and that he was either a nationalist poet who was killed in the Gulags or the dilettante son of an oil millionaire or a Viennese cafe-society writer who died after stabbing himself in the foot.

Tom Reiss

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What we need is fundamental tax reform.

Rob Portman

TaxNeedReformTax Reform

I regret not learning to drive when I was younger.

Michelle Dockery

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If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment.

Mohammed Morsi

CulturePeoplePerformanceJudgeYou

I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?

Jay London

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I'm not a journalist; I'm probably a horrible interviewer. The one small thing I have is I'm curious, and I'm interested in who I'm with.

Doug Aitken

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