Ah, gratitude, that's a terrible thing, a dangerous thing. - Elizabeth Ferrars

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I believe the fast track to atheism is reading the Bible. I've read it three times all the way through. It's a big part of our culture, a big part of our history. I don't just read things I agree with.

Elizabeth Ferrars

Ah, gratitude, that's a terrible thing, a dangerous thing.

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Children do not see themselves as shocking or surprising and do not want other people to do so.

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Facts, I feel, should be ready to yield to manipulation. But unfortunately they're a stubborn lot.

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We never wholly shed anything that we have ever been.

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Most of us think we've had more trouble than we deserve.

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. . . if you know a person really well, the truth is you can't guess how they'll act in an altogether new sort of crisis. . . . intimacy creates a special environment for two people, and the deeper the intimacy, the more they both live within it, the closer its boundaries usually are, so that all that lies beyond them becomes with time not less but more and more of a mystery.

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