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• I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. "'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.

  Orson Scott Card

  Liars, Pretending, Said

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1052, Macmillan

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• If you want to understand yourself, Then do not examine yourself. Just love yourself more sincerely, More soulfully And more self-givingly.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Love Yourself, Want, Ifs

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• The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Strong, Responsibility, Wish

  D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• He wouldn't write a letter because he couldn't without beginning it 'Dear Sylvia' and ending it 'Yours sincerely' or 'truly' or 'affectionately.' He's that sort of precise imbecile. I tell you he's so formal he can't do without all the conventions there are and so truthful he can't use half of them.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Writing, Use, Half

  Ford Madox Ford (2012). “Parade's End”, p.34, Vintage

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• Puck flapped up to the happy couple. "Wait a minute! You have to ask someone to marry you? No one told me that! I thought you just hit them with a club and dragged them back to your cave!" Henry put his arm around Sabrina. "You're officially grounded from ever getting married." "Thank you," Sabrina whispered sincerely.

  Michael Buckley

  Couple, Waiting, Caves

  Michael Buckley (2012). “The Sisters Grimm: Book Nine: The Council of Mirrors”, p.44, Abrams

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• I don't have a car." His eyes sliced into mine. "I walked here," I explained. "I'm on foot." "Angel," he said in a way that sounded like he sincerely hoped I was joking.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Angel, Feet

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “Silence”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• Many an atheist is a believer without knowing it juast as many a believer is an atheist without knowing it. You can sincerely believe there is no God and live as though there is. You can sincerely believe there is a God and live as though there isn't.

  Frederick Buechner

  Atheist, Believe, Knowing

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Oct 19, 2016

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• Yes,' he said sincerely. 'Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.

  Patricia Briggs

  Peanut Butter, Pants, Peanuts

  Patricia Briggs (2013). “Frost Burned”, p.76, Penguin

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• To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Religious, Race, Law

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If women were in charge of all the world's nations, there would be sincerely believe this - no military conflicts, and when there WAS a military conflict, everybody involved would feel just awful and there would soon be a high-level exchange of notes written on greeting cards with flowers on the front, followed by a Peace Luncheon

  Dave Barry

  Hilarious, Military, Believe

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• If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, thatit is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Life, Disappointment, Real

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering. The objective of any who sincerely believe in peace clearly must be to exhaust every honorable recourse in the effort to save the peace. The world has had ample evidence that war begets only conditions that beget further war.

  Ralph Bunche

  Peace, War, Believe

  "Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time". Ralph J. Bunche - Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1950.

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• War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

  Alice Walker

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.278, Hachette UK

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• Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our age. If we desire sincerely and passionately the safety, the welfare and the free development of the talents of all men, we shall not be in want of the means to approach such a state.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, Mean, Men

  "Ideas And Opinions". Book by Albert Einstein, 1954.

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• You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.

  Bob Dylan

  Artist, Forgive Me, Poetry

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• I can truly say, after an experience of seventy years, that all the cares and anxieties, the trials and disappointments of my whole life, are light, when balanced with my sufferings in childhood and youth from the theological dogmas which I sincerely believed. . . . The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstitions of the Christian religion.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Christian, Memories, Disappointment

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• To most theistic believers, human life can have no meaning in a universe without God. Quite sincerely, and with understandable yearning for a meaning to their existence, they reject the possibility of no God. In their minds, only a purposeful universe based on God is possible and science can do nothing else but support thistruth.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Support, Mind, Religion

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• When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Maturity, Our World

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4096, Delphi Classics

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• Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Pleasure

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2367, Delphi Classics

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• When we pray and meditate sincerely and soulfully, we receive an open-hearted invitation from heaven.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Yoga, Heaven, Praying

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• For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.

  Alexander Hamilton

  4th Of July, Diversity, Constitution

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• The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter that haunts the minds of many who sincerely profess belief in God. It makes prayer psychologically impossible, replacing it with dead ritual at best.

  Dallas Willard

  Prayer, Ideas, Mind

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• no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free & good government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Government, Wish

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.521

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• The one who admonishes his brother secretly, he has advised sincerely and has honored him. If he does it outwardly (among others) then he has dishonored and shamed him.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Wisdom, Brother, Islamic

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• It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Helping Others, People

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