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Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.


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Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
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EDWIN ARMSTRONG They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
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MICHAEL ERIC DYSON So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their m...
JACK LALANNE In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.
JOSH BILLINGS I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they lear...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN A wicked book cannot repent.
PROVERB A wicked book cannot repent.
OLD PROVERB A wicked book cannot repent
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SELA WARD None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach peo...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.
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SHELBY LYNNE I just want people to know out there no matter what they've done, God doesn't judge us on ho...
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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. They will continue to recreate their victimized reality as long as they refuse to repent from it and...
DANNY SILK Josh Billings wrote, “It’s not what a man knows that hurts him; it’s what he knows that isn’...
BRIAN TRACY I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that c...
EDWIN ARMSTRONG This hits so close to home because if they're undocumented or their parents, their aunts, their neig...
LUIS ALEJO Most people don’t require forgiveness for own committed sins from their victims or others because ...
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STEDMAN GRAHAM Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.
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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. All of my babies know that I preach all day... I ain't trying to hide no light under no bushel. ...
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JAVIER BARDEM People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have comm...
LEE GREENWOOD Who rules the world?… - It's for sure, ain't you!
DEYTH BANGER College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
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ROD PARSLEY Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
YOGI BERRA If you ain't Texan, I ain't got time for you.
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ADAM HAMILTON I repent daily my sins, my faults, and my shortcomings.
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ELBERT HUBBARD Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
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JOSH BILLINGS The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way
JOSH BILLINGS Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's ...
JOSH BILLINGS As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
JOSH BILLINGS Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well
JOSH BILLINGS Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
JOSH BILLINGS The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
JOSH BILLINGS the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
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