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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.


Flannery O'Connor

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CHRIS W. MORRIS (CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM MORRIS) Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.
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SOURCE UNKNOWN Seven days without prayer makes one weak.
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DICK WOLF Without a experience, how can we be truly educated?
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