Quote by Laurence Housman
It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a

It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion – death brought them into harmony. – Laurence Housman

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My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative. – Laurence Housman

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Failure
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Suicide is possible, but not probable hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment. – Laurence Housman

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Trust
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I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. – Laurence Housman

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We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting. – Tom Baker

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The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion – we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles. – Jim Ryun

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Religion

I know its very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or nations or region. – Shahrukh Khan

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I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I owe nothing to Womens Lib. – Margaret Thatcher

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