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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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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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Christopher Fry
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Faith
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Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labors right to live has been challenged and denied. – John L. Lewis

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Faith

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith. – Samantha Morton

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Faith

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization. – Wilfrid Laurier

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Faith

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters. – David Knopfler

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Faith

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I think its so important to keep learning and keep your brain active. – Beverley Mitchell

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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. – Jean Rostand

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Being a person is getting too complicated. Time to be a unicorn. – Popular internet meme, c.2013

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Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions. – Kenneth L. Pike

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communication