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The master swordsman isn't interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art.


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If you don’t like a language, you can go write your own.

If you don’t like a language, you can go write your own.



Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools.

Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools.



There are people who think death a fate worse than boredom.

There are people who think death a fate worse than boredom.



There are people who think contraception is immoral because the object of copulation is procreation. In a similar way there are people who think the only reason to read a book is to write a book.

There are people who think contraception is immoral because the object of copulation is procreation. In a similar way there are people who think the only reason to read a book is to write a book.



I didn't want to go to sleep knowing I would just wake up in the morning.

I didn't want to go to sleep knowing I would just wake up in the morning.



Here was a man who'd learned to write before he could think, a man who threw out logical fallacies like tacks behind a getaway car, and he always always always got away.

Here was a man who'd learned to write before he could think, a man who threw out logical fallacies like tacks behind a getaway car, and he always always always got away.





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In our own way, in your own way, we are all of us a masterpiece. Everyone is unique.

In our own way, in your own way, we are all of us a masterpiece. Everyone is unique.



The first thing I ever rode when I was a kid was a motorcycle, so I knew how to drive a motorcycle before a car.

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So to pick and choose that once you come to Christ you're never going to struggle in those areas again or never fall prey to stumbling in those ways again, I just, I don't think we can assure that.

So to pick and choose that once you come to Christ you're never going to struggle in those areas again or never fall prey to stumbling in those ways again, I just, I don't think we can assure that.



I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.

I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.



And one perfect day can give clues for a more perfect life.

And one perfect day can give clues for a more perfect life.



I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.



Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together.

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I'm one of the few people I know who believes in God.

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Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.




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