None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.
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None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.
There are also people who say it's God's curse on me that I should have it near my throat because that was the organ of blasphemy which I used for so many years. I've used many other organs to blaspheme as well if it comes to that.
I don't have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights.
When you think about it, attention-deficit order makes a lot of sense. In this country there isn't a lot worth paying attention to.
If the cops didn't see it, I didn't do it!
Just think, right now as you read this, some guy somewhere is gettin' ready to hang himself.
Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes. When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? This title offends all three major religions, and even vegetarians!
Whoever coined the term "Buyer Beware" was probably bleeding from the asshole.
Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.
No one who has had "Taps" played for them has ever been able to hear it.
As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is.
God bless the homicidal maniacs. They make life worthwhile.
I don't like to think of laws as rules you have to follow, but more as suggestions.
No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.
I didn't introduce thug life to America. Thug life is America. I don't get why the whole world is fearing me. I am scared, but so are they. It's like I am having a panic attack cause I have 15,000 people wanting to do what I want, listing to everything I say.
In my death, people will understand what I was talking about.
There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not. There are classes on...gym. Physical Education.
When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.
God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship?
Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.
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