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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow esca

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith. – Christopher Fry

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Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. – Christopher Fry

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Poetry
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The moon is nothing but a circumambulating aphrodisiac divinely subsidized to provoke the world into a rising birth-rate. – Christopher Fry

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Sky & Clouds
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Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing. – Christopher Fry

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Death
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Faith
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When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change? – Wynton Marsalis

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Faith

To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. Im adding up the evidence on either side, and Im seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God. – Julia Sweeney

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Faith

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer. – John Wooden

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Faith

Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy. – Dwight L. Moody

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Faith

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There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats grapenuts on principle. – G.K. Chesterton

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Miscellaneous

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing. – Alanis Morissette

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Music

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They dont start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like. – John Polkinghorne

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Experience

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

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Freedom