Quotes with church-like

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  • Aristide Briand Among peoples who are geographically grouped together like the peoples of Europe there must exist a sort of federal link. It is this link which I wish to endeavour to establish.
    Aristide Briand
    French statesman (1862 - 1932)
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  • W. H. Auden Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Marilyn Monroe An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Martin Luther An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.
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  • Friedrich von Schlegel An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
    Friedrich von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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  • Charles Mackay An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
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  • J. G. Ballard An arts degree is like a diploma in origami.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Bill Bryson An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Thomas Traherne An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Samuel Butler An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • A. J. Liebling An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • Ada Louise Huxtable An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
    Ada Louise Huxtable
    American architecture critic and writer (1921 - 2013)
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  • Saskya Pandita An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards, himself his own dungeon.
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  • Albert Einstein An hour sitting with a pretty girl passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour. That's relativity.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Washington Irving An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
    The C++ Programming Language. p.713
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Alejandro Amenabar An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.
    Alejandro Amenabar
    Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer (1972 - )
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  • Barry McGuire And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Arthur Hugh Clough And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.
    Arthur Hugh Clough
    English poet (1819 - 1861)
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