"…If you consult a priest, for instance, you already know in your heart, more or less, what advice he is likely to give. In other words, to choose one’s adviser is only another way to commit oneself."
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Your friend,
Jean-Paul Sartre
"A person should be dragged kicking and screaming into politics on the basis of obvious good character and demonstrated intelligence. The person who aspires to be a politician will never be anything more than a politician."
"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."
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Your friend,
Mr. Edgar Allan Poe
"Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."
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Your friend,
Mr. Edgar Allan Poe
"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars."
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Your friend,
Mr. Walt Whitman
"Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven."
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Your friend,
Jesus Christ
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
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Your friend,
Ms. Maya Angelou
"The more you own, the more you know you don’t own."
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Your friend,
Mr. Aristotle Onassis
"This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body."
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Your friend,
Mr. Walt Whitman
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
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Your friend,
Mr. William Shakespeare
