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• It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that man, the ephemeral inhabitant of an insignificant planet, with all his pain and all his striving is but a jest in an eternal mind.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Pain, Men, Mind

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “Cakes And Ale”, p.131, Random House

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• God, I felt certain, did not mind that I didn’t press my hands together to pray. I was casual, but I was sincere. I knew that God existed as the Correct Answer inside my chest.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Hands, Mind, Together

  Augusten Burroughs (2008). “A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father”, p.68, Macmillan

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• The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere...When it begins to exist in others it ceases to live in us, just as the child severs itself from its mother when it enters into its own existence.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.77, Publishdrive

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• He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.

  Isabel Allende

  Arrogance, Ignorant, Quality

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• I am sincere, ma petite, even when I lie.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Lying, Petite

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.173, Penguin

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• If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of ‘I could have, I should have’. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete.

  Mitch Albom

  Goodbye, Sleep, Should Have

  Mitch Albom (2011). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, p.105, Hachette UK

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• However, I have never clogged myself with the praises of pastoral life, nor with nostalgia for an innocent past of perverted acts in pastures. No. One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes—I can’t even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there’s a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life. It is more important to affirm the least sincere; the clouds get enough attention as it is and even they continue to pass. Do they know what they’re missing? Uh huh.

  Frank O'Hara

  New York, Regret, Past

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.197, Univ of California Press

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• Love ye all religions and all races with a love that is true and sincere and show that love through deeds.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Race, Deeds, Baha

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• Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Males, Generations, Flattery

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• Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.

  Suzanne Collins

  Katniss, Trying, Hunger Games Book

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.32, Scholastic Inc.

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• The cause which is blocking all progress today is the subtle scepticism which whispers in a million ears that things are not good enough to be worth improving. If the world is good we are revolutionaries, if the world is evil we must be conservatives. These essays, futile as they are considered as serious literature, are yet ethically sincere, since they seek to remind men that things must be loved first and improved afterwards.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Block, Men, Evil

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• The very names assigned to angels by their Creator, convey to us ideas pre-eminently pleasing, fitted to captivate the heart, and exalt the imagination; ideas which dispel gloom, banish despondency, enliven hope, and awaken sincere and unmingled joy.

  Timothy Dwight V

  Heart, Angel, Names

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• The bottom line is not money but some sort of demonic compulsion that drives these people to lash out against Jesus Christ, against Christians, and against anyone who holds to a sincere belief in God, in spite of the fact that it is going to cost them tens of millions of dollars to do it. They are driven to 'make a statement' regardless of the consequences.

  Michael Medved

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• The foundations of democratic transition should be laid in accordance with a sincere and committed strategy that is supported by various policy tools, and implemented wisely

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Foundation, Transition, Tools

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• Am I honest? Am I sincere? Do I really desire first the praise of God?

  J. C. Ryle

  Desire, Firsts, Honest

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.90, Editora Dracaena

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• We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never lived. But I have seen several entirely sincere people who thought they were (permanent) Seekers after the Truth. They sought diligently, persistently, carefully, cautiously, profoundly, with perfect honesty and nicely adjusted judgment- until they believed that without doubt or question they had found the Truth. That was the end of the search. The man spent the rest of his hunting up shingles wherewith to protect his Truth from the weather.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Honesty, Men

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• The truly patient man neither complains of his hard lot nor desires to be pitied by others. He speaks of his sufferings in a natural, true, and sincere way, without murmuring, complaining, or exaggerating them.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Men, Suffering, Desire

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• As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.

  Victor Hugo

  Prayer, Long, Method

  "Stop What You’re Doing and Read".

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• But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out.

  Archibald Alexander

  Jesus, Believe, Uprising

  Archibald Alexander (1857). “Practical Truths”

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• The more sincerity is developed, the greater share of truth you will have. And however much sincerity a person may have, there is always a gap to fill, for we live in the midst of falsehood, and we are always apt to be carried away by this world of falsehood. Therefore we must never think we are sincere enough, and we must always be on our guard against influences which may carry us away from that sincerity which is the bridge between ourselves and our ideal. No study, no meditation is more helpful than sincerity itself.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Thinking, Bridges, Meditation

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• And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Loneliness, Simple

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• And as for Pleasure, there is little in this World that is true and sincere, besides the Pleasure of doing our Duty, and of doing good.

  John Tillotson

  World, Littles, Goodness

  "The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions".

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• The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

  Emily Carr

  Religious, Artist, Thinking

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.10, D & M Publishers

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• The music that I make is pretty sincere; it's from my heart and I love it, and what just happened is more people have started to connect with my heart, and I haven't followed some kind of marketing scheme.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Heart, People, Marketing

  "Esperanza Spalding: Grammy Award 2011 Winner For Best New Artist", www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2011.

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• If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.

  Jon Secada

  Song, Honesty, Writing

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