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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

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Taylor Caldwell
Age: 84 †
Born: 1900
Born: September 7
Died: 1985
Died: August 30
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Manchester
England
Marcus Holland
Max Reiner
Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell
Janet Miriam Reback
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
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I shudder at the very thought of being born again into this world. Life to me . . . has been a monstrous, painful, agonizing affair, and the idea of repeating such an existence - even if better in a way - is horrifying to me. . . . I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
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It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
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It is not always wise to appear singular.
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I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.
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We are not old unless we desire to be.
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Saints rarely have friends they are usually hated and derided, for they love and love is always rejected by hard-hearted men....saints do not advertise themselves good men do not seek out a name in the world....the saints did what they did almost in stealth, asking nothing except that men love God.
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I am the skeptic of skeptics.
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The more wants a man has, the less freedom.
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I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.
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My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
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The world is a penal institution.
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But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.
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Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it
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Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.
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