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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and di

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. – Paul Simon

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Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do. – Paul Simon

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Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. – Paul Simon

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As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people wont be put to death. – Paul Simon

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I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. – Wilson Mizner

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If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. – Juan Ramon Jimenez

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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or that our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than we suspect of what we think. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Go put your creed into your deed. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. Theres always a desire to please each one. – Hillary Clinton

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Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known… then went crazy as a loon. – Matt Groening, The Simpsons, spoken by the character Lisa Simpson

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Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you cant construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history. – John Polkinghorne

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