There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage. - Moliere

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Enter into the promises of God. It is your inheritance. You will do more in one year if you are really filled with the Holy Ghost than you could do in fifty years apart from Him.

Moliere

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Courage, Literature, Piety, Pretenders, Wells

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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

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You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

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Reason is not what decides love.

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When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.

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What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?

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What bothers me is when music becomes entertainment. Of course, music is supposed to be entertaining, but go back to any period of time - music had a cultural significance on different levels, whether it was folk music, it was the news of the village, or it had to do with the rites of passage.

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Wim Wenders

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

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If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.

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Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed by literature toward the state is essentially the reaction of the permanent-better yet, the infinite-against the temporary, against the finite.

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