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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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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls
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I am the skeptic of skeptics.
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It is not always wise to appear singular.
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I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
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I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.
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Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
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My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
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My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.
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The world is a penal institution.
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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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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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No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me
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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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My literary success meant nothing to me
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The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.
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I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul
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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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