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Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes: To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.
         

To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.


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If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.



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Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.



For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.



Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.



God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.



What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.



A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.



It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.



As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.



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If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.





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When you lurch from one thing to the next, constantly scheming, or reacting to incoming fire, the mind gets exhausted. You get sloppy and make bad decisions.



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I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua Tennis.



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A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.



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I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I can find out some of what I think about any number of situations. I work it out in the writing.



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One must know one's own secret.



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