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«The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.»
Author: Kenneth Clark
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Achievement
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«The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeenth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band.»
Author: Philip K. Dick
(Writer)
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«Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, so. What did you think?»
Author: Steven Wright
(Comedian)
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«Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.»
«Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; / As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.»
«We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age»
«The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Kindness
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communicated, lay, lay in, lips, longest, remembered, so far, speaker, Speaker of, unsaid, unsay
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