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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

James Baldwin

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
JAMES BALDWIN

Affliction Crutch Desire Frightened Release
The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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Situation Threat Victim Women
Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Happiness Inspirational Joy Life Sad Sorrow Teaching Trust
Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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Believe Deserve Desire Dreamss Event Love Wish
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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Born Change Inspirational Shock State
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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DAngry Deep Healing Lose Man Society
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Battle Beginning Grow Love Thinking War
Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Coward Fools Man People Truth
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Freedom Independence Liberty Patriotism People
We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Acceptance Commit Crime Lie
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Broken Heart Heart History Pain Read Thinking World
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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Bread Float Human People Poison Surprise Water
You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Home Leave Pain Suffering
People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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Believe Cheat Destiny Master People Strong
For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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Freedom Independence One Liner Unbearable
I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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Circumstances History Myself Time

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

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