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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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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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Christopher Fry
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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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Reason is the enemy of faith. – Martin Luther

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The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before. – Ron Chernow

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Faith

For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that youre not facing these things on your own. – David Cameron

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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. – Benjamin Franklin

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Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I want to age with some dignity. – Pete Townshend

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If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest. – G. I. Gurdjieff

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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots. – Thurgood Marshall

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