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Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human.
Harold S. Kushner
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We have confused God with Santa Claus. And we believe that prayer means making a list of everything you don't have but want and trying to persuade God you deserve it. Now I'm sorry, that's not God, that's Santa Claus.
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Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.
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