"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."
-Paul Valery
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"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other."
-Paul Valery
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"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be."
-Paul Valery
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"History is the science of things which are not repeated."
-Paul Valery
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"Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature."
-Paul Valery
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"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us."
-Paul Valery
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"Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding."
-Corrie Ten Boom
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"I really am pretty happy with what God gave me."
-Jennifer Aniston
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"Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God."
-Abraham Joshua Heschel
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"I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me."
-Jimmy Carter
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"The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned."
-Cindy Crawford
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"We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level."
-Karen Armstrong
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