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. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.

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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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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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If a nation has not God that nation must fall, but if a nation has God then all the powers of evil, and all the armies, cannot shake its foundations no, not even if the whole world is arrayed against it.
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The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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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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'He is very ugly,' said his mother.
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One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.
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I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
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The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.
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Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
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My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.
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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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An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.
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Animals do not betray they do not exploit they do not oppress they do not enslave they do not sin. They have their being, and their being is honest, and who can say this of man?
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We are not old unless we desire to be.
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People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
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Tel Aviv appeals to me.
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My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
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