Death is easily fooled. If the churches don't work, a filter will do.
John Updike
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MADELEINE L'ENGLE Do the days work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to he...
CALVIN COOLIDGE Eat cheese and do a u-turn but if you dont like cheese dont eat cheese and do a u-turn
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BRAD MILLER One is easily fooled by that which one loves.
[Fr., On est aisement dupe par ce qu'on aime.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassione...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE If you can control a mans thinking, you dont have to worry about his actions. If you can determine w...
CARTER WOODSON Children know when they're loved. It's when you grow up that you're more easily fooled.
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THABISO TOX XABANISA dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.
NATALIE BABBITT [Calling Reeve, who died Sunday after nine years as a quadriplegic,] a powerful voice for the need t...
JOHN EDWARDS Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.
ALBERT CAMUS It wasn't until I started to read short stories - by people like Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, Joh...
CAROL WINDLEY People live for eating,but
I eat for survive
OM BENIWAL The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI The government is playing games. The people will not be fooled.
ABDUL RAOULF If it doesnt help, I damned sure dont know what will.
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ALAN CHEUSE If you review them from someone else's perspective, you have a better filtering system to filter out...
KAREN ADAMS I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by the government when it...
HOWARD ZINN The thing is people want to work for John Fox. He brings a certain energy to what we do.
DAN HENNING will take time to filter down.
MARSHALL STEEVES John is one of these guys that if a nuclear bomb hits, it will be John and cockroaches left as the o...
KATHY PULLEY His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING In the Information Age, the first step to sanity is FILTERING. Filter the information: extract for k...
MARC STIEGLER Whether you're beginning with the foundation or you're finishing off the second story...the purposef...
JOHN WAIRE These churches can do a ton of things that smaller churches can't.
NANCY AMMERMAN people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don...
CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
BROOKS ATKINSON I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work
BROOKS ATKINSON When dirt blocks the filter, your system has to work that much harder.
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WOODY ALLEN The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostil...
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY a grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arroganc...
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RAY COMFORT The diffrence in man kind is you do or dont.
JAYDON It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibi...
FRED DURST You can die the death of a thousand cuts very easily.
ADAM CUMMINGS He will work them to death.
DOUG BOXELL We breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Lo...
GUY DE MAUPASSANT Most people I think feel exterior-wise Churches, unless we yell like 'horton hears a who' that all u...
CHUCK BRIDGES Diligence, hard work, perseverance, excellence are the values that will make us have quality churche...
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DonT WIpE YOUR TeARS IF YOU StiLL WANT TO Cry
DON'T SET...
TRENT REZNOR If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
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ERIC MILLER We need a president who will keep you safe. John Kerry will do that,
JOHN EDWARDS Failing is just another way of succeeding, do not be fooled my friend
SHAHAFYEFET Death is the last thing you will ever do.
VIKRANT PARSAI Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE Do not seek death.
Death will find you.
But seek the road which
makes death a fulfillment.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD Do not seek death. Death will find you.
But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD Dad, is she serious?"
John shrugged. "I argue with your Mama, I sleep on the couch and she does...
MOLLY MCADAMS God has used our ministry and the local Chinese churches there to do great work. Now we are looking ...
JAHJA LING The existing filter has been redone and it will work and stay in place as asked for by Premier Gary ...
JOE BELFORD Dont strew me with roses after Im dead. When Death claims the light of my brow,No flowers of life wi...
THOMAS F. HEALEY Life is a predicament which precedes death.
HENRY JAMES What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
OPRAH WINFREY They still want to portray themselves as a normal democracy, ... I don't think anybody will be foole...
LOVEMORE MADHUKU Throughout history, it would appear that evil discriminated against just a few. Do not be fooled; Wh...
ENRIQUE VEGA Winner dont do different but they do differently
SHIV KHERA Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample p...
JULIUS ROSENWALD A person employed in direct missionary work among the natives, especially if his employ is somewhat ...
ADONIRAM JUDSON I will work closely with John Kerry to make sure we beat George Bush in November and turn our countr...
HOWARD DEAN If we fix our churches, our nation is fixed.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Love is a stranger and dont Live here,, and it dont even Visit
KALUM JOHNSON (KDOG) And if you dont believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remain...
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JAMES VALENTINE Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else i...
PALMER LUCKEY Money last longer if it is gotten through labour,but if it is gotten easily it will fritter away.
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DADA VASWANI Churches, by the very reason of their structures, are monolithic and do not adapt easily. But in man...
SEAN MACBRIDE Winners dont do different things,they do things differently
SHIV KHERA Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.
PATRICK NESS Soldiers are the truly responsables for war,if they dont fight,its not gonna be the mans with a suit...
RAJA It will not take a modern Victorian specialist long to admit that liberal cultural heroes like John ...
EDWARD SAID Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.
KURT VONNEGUT Dating is like a game. If someone feels like they have won us over too easily, they won’t see our ...
DANIEL WILLEY dont wait for next minute, next hour, next day, next week, next year, just do it if you want to do i...
ANON QUOTER A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus' death,...
ELAINE PAGELS Winners dont do different things
They do things differently
SHIV KERA People think that they are untouchable, but you will probably find that there lives are built around...
GARY F EVANS... If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then th...
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JOHN UPDIKE Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more...
JOHN UPDIKE Ich habe in diesen Tagen viel über Liebe nachgedacht, und darüber, wie ich das Wort hasste und es ...
JOHN UPDIKE But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a sta...
JOHN UPDIKE We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted h...
JOHN UPDIKE Harry has heard this before. Thelma's voice is dutiful and deliberately calm, issuing small family t...
JOHN UPDIKE What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating ...
JOHN UPDIKE In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a d...
JOHN UPDIKE If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.
JOHN UPDIKE In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of ru...
JOHN UPDIKE There's something very reassuring... about the written record.
JOHN UPDIKE …he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like li...
JOHN UPDIKE I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over...
JOHN UPDIKE If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extincti...
JOHN UPDIKE For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic ...
JOHN UPDIKE I never really made a choice to live in America, so I should be aware of the social strata outside o...
JOHN UPDIKE John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although ...
JOHN UPDIKE Memory has a spottiness, as if the film was sprinkled with developer instead of immersed in it.
JOHN UPDIKE My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and uns...
JOHN UPDIKE He imagines the plane exploding as it touches down, ignited by one of its glints, in a ball of red f...
JOHN UPDIKE Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.
JOHN UPDIKE I love you,” he says, and the fact that he doesn’t makes it true.
JOHN UPDIKE