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Question: How many Bush-administration officials does it take to screw in a light bulb?

—Unknown

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We first fought . . . in the name of religion, then communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

—Serj Tankian

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If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops.

—Kelvin R. Throop

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The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequence of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

—Margaret Mead

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America is like an unfaithful lover who promised us more than we got.

—Charlotte Bunch

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What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.

—Barbara Jordan

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A Jewish grandmother is watching her grandchild playing on the beach when a huge wave comes and takes him out to sea. She pleads, "Please, God, save my only grandson. I beg of you, bring him back." And a big wave comes and washes the boy back onto the beach, good as new. She looks up to heaven and says, "He had a hat!

—Myron Cohen

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If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

—Leonard Cohen

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As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent. . . . This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and being silent, and waiting until God is heard.

—Soren Kierkegaard

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Most people do not pray; they only beg.

—George Bernard Shaw

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She makes long, long prayers, they say — so long that she has been found in the morning fainting on the cold floor of the convent church. . . . They all say she will have a very high place in heaven; but it seems to me, unless there is a very great difference between the highest and lowest places in heaven, it is a great deal of trouble to take.

—Elizabeth Rundle Charles

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God is trying to sell you something, but you don't want to buy. That is what your suffering is: your fantastic haggling, your manic screaming over the price!

—Hafiz

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Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer.

—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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By means of all created things, without exception, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, whereas in fact we live steeped in its burning layers.

—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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