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• God can take your most monstrous failures and turn them into triumphs such as you never could imagine.

  Tony Evans

  Triumph, Imagine, Turns

  Tony Evans (2011). “God Is Up to Something Great: Turning Your Yesterdays into Better Tomorrows”, p.27, Multnomah

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• A sad truth of human nature is that it is hard to care for people when they are abstractions, hard to care when it is not you or somebody close to you. Unless the world community can stop finding ways to dither in the face of this monstrous threat to humanity those words Never Again will persist in being one of the most abused phrases in the English language and one of the greatest lies of our time.

  Paul Rusesabagina

  Lying, People, Community

  Paul Rusesabagina, Tom Zoellner (2006). “An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography”, p.206, Penguin

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• Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in fact a monstrous step backwards--a step that has been responsible for more human misery than any other idea in known history.

  Isaac Bonewits

  Ideas, Crowns, Facts

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• Chaos, the life force of the universe, is not human-hearted. Therefore the wizard cannot be human-hearted when he seeks to tap the force of the universe. He performs monstrous and arbitrary acts to loosen the hold of human limitations upon himself.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Arbitrary, Wizards, Chaos

  Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.66, Weiser Books

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• Waiting for Godot was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used as an example of decadence, being a very good analyst of how terrible and monstrous American culture was. That they liked, but they wouldn't publish him. I guess it must have been the sex. With Beckett, it must have been the hopelessness.

  Barney Rosset

  Sex, Waiting, Example

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• The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is repressed. To be confronted with this truth all at once and to try to integrate it into our consciousness, however ardently we may wish it, is clearly impossible.

  Alice Miller

  Childhood, Wish, Trying

  Alice Miller (1991). “Breaking down the wall of silence: the liberating experience of facing painful truth”, Penguin Press HC, The

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• When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame, I will show you a generation that is monstrous in its appetite... never satisfied.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Generations, Shame, Appetite

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jun 29, 2013

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• The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.

  Ella Reeve Bloor

  Mother, Children, Class

  Ella Reeve Bloor (1940). “We are Many: An Autobiography by Ella Reeve Bloor”, New York : International Publishers

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• The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main,
  Seems to cast water on the burning Bear,
  And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole.

  William Shakespeare

  Science, Wind, Water

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.292

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• The individual comes face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind has not come to a realisation of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Philosophy, War, Believe

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• Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges;Thou art fed with perpetual breath, and alive after infinite changes,And fresh from the kisses of death,Of langours rekindled and rallied, Of barren delights and unclean,Things monstrous and fruitless, a pallidAnd poisonous queen.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Art, Queens, Kissing

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1868). “Laus Veneris: And Other Poems and Ballads”, p.174

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• Organic chemistry just now is enough to drive one mad. It gives me the impression of a primeval forest full of the most remarkable things, a monstrous and boundless thicket, with no way of escape, into which one may well dread to enter.

  Friedrich Wohler

  Giving, Mad, May

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• All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Simple, People

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “On Liberty and Utilitarianism”, p.234, Bantam Classics

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• Why climb? For the natural experience; for the danger that draws us ever on; for the feeling of total freedom; for the monstrous drop beneath you. It is like a drug.

  Hermann Buhl

  Climbing, Drug, Feelings

  Reinhold Messner, Horst Höfler, Hermann Buhl (2000). “Hermann Buhl: climbing without compromise”, The Mountaineers Books

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• If you cared enough about your characters, what happened to them was interesting... it's important to care about them, about who they are and what they do...I don't really care whose side they are on, and they can be monstrous on the outside or, worse, on the inside, but you still have to want to spend time with them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Character, Interesting, Important

  "The Father's Day & Invisible Plane Post" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. June 21, 2009.

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• I wish, in America, (that) we were as concerned about separation from church and sin as we are about separation between church and state. Church and sin-- it's a monstrous problem.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  America, Wish, Church

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• I'll speak in a monstrous little voice.

  William Shakespeare

  Voice, Littles, Speak

  William Shakespeare (2013). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.30, Callisto Media Inc

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• Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars.

  Joseph Conrad

  Stars, Sunshine, Light

  Joseph Conrad (2012). “Heart of Darkness: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.19, Penguin

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• Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the bloody persecutions, and tortures unto death, and religiosu wars, that since that time have laid Europe in blood and ashes; whence arose they, but from this impious thing called religion, and this monstrous belief that God has spoken to man?

  Thomas Paine

  War, Men, Blood

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.151

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• Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured--first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny.

  Herodotus

  Party, Calumny Is, Two

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• We human beings cause monstrous conditions, but precisely because we cause them we soon learn to adapt ourselves to them. Only if we become such that we can no longer adapt ourselves, only if, deep inside, we rebel against every kind of evil, will we be able to put a stop to it. ... while everything within us does not yet scream out in protest, so long will we find ways of adapting ourselves, and the horrors will continue.

  Etty Hillesum

  Long, Evil, Rebel

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.308, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven
  They fade, they fly--but truth survives the flight.

  William C. Bryant

  Errors, Earth, Shapes

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Ages”

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• every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works, yet we require critics to explain the one and biographers to expound the other. That time hangs heavy on people's hands is the only explanation of the monstrous growth.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hands, People, Soul

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.499, Wordsworth Editions

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• Because I believe in a God of absolute and unbounded love, therefore I believe in a loving anger of His which will and must devour and destroy all which is decayed, monstrous, abortive in His universe till all enemies shall be put under His feet, and God shall be all in all.

  Charles Kingsley

  God, Believe, Feet

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.152, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other; as in the former, the painter seems to have the advantage, so it is in the latter infinitely on the side of the writer. For the monstrous is much easier to paint than describe, and the ridiculous to describe than paint.

  Henry Fielding

  Writing, Sides, Ridiculous

  Henry Fielding (1902). “The history of the adventures of Joseph Andrews and his friend Mr. Abraham Adams”

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