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It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within.
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A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.
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The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.
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From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
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