Quote by Martha Gellhorn
After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of rep

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat. – Martha Gellhorn

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Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit. – Martha Gellhorn

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Truth
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Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? Its great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but Im not complaining,… Those who find growing old terrible are people who havent done what they wanted with their lives. – Martha Gellhorn

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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith. – Randall Terry

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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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Faith and doubt both are needed — not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. – Lillian Smith

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Faith… must be enforced by reason…. When faith becomes blind it dies. – Mahatma Gandhi

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The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name. – Sylvia Browne

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To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man. – Marcel Marceau

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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. – Og Mandino

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What comes from the heart, goes to the heart. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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