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• If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.

  Van Jones

  Mistake, Social Transformation, Built

  "Bridging the gap between environmental and social justice" by Lauren Rabaino, mustangnews.net. April 4, 2008.

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• Even after the Super Bowl victory of the New Orleans Saints, I have noticed a large number of people implying, with bad jokes, that Cajuns aren't smart. I would like to state for the record that I disagree with that assessment. Anybody that would build a city
  5 feet below sea level in a hurricane zone and fill it with Democrats who can't swim is a genius.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Smart, New Orleans, Assessment

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• I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

  Danny Glover

  Men, Two, Able

  Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

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• When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.

  Paul McCartney

  Two, Humbling Experiences, Humbling

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• I've told Kamal Haasan, Amitabh Bachchan, Naseeruddin Shah, Nana Patekar, I just want to touch you. They are the gods of acting. When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Angel, Long, People

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• We cannot escape the conclusion that because of performance in the pre-existence some of us are born as Chinese, some as Japanese, some as Indians, some as Negroes, some as Americans, some as Latter-day Saints. These are rewards and punishments, fully in harmony with His established policy in dealing with sinners and saints, rewarding all according to their deeds

  Mark E. Petersen

  Punishment, Chinese, Deeds

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• As Latter-day Saints, we need not look like the world. We need not entertain like the world. Our personal habits should be different. Our recreation should be different. Our concern for family will be different. As we establish this distinctiveness firmly in our life's pattern, the blessings of heaven await to assist us.

  Robert D. Hales

  Blessing, Heaven, Different

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• What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A world where people like Mother Teresa and MLK would have nothing to do.

  Peter Rollins

  Mother, Creating, People

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• The simple person lives the way he breathes, with no more effort or glory, with no more affectation and without shame Simplicity is freedom, buoyancy, transparency. As simple as the air, as free as the air The simple person does not take himself too seriously or too tragicallyHe has nothing to prove, since he has no appearances to keep up, and nothing to seek, since everything is before him. What is more simple than simplicity? What is lighter? It is the virtue of wise men and the wisdom of saints.

  Andre Comte-Sponville

  Wise, Simple, Men

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• Among the Mormons, things temporal have always been important along with things eternal, for salvation in this world and the next is seen as one and the same continuing process of endless growth. Building Zion, a literal Kingdom of God on earth, has therefore meant an identity of religious and economic values: in the daily affairs of the Kingdom, Latter-day Saint scriptures call for unity, welfare, and economic independence.

  Leonard J. Arrington

  Religious, Economic Value, Zion

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• Do not believe your thoughts, neither when they tell you that you are terrible, nor when they tell you that you are a saint.

  Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

  Believe, Terrible

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• No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners. We are not to blame for the actions of our ancestors. We can only try to be the best we can, no matter what our heritage, to strive for a better future for all.

  Diana Peterfreund

  Kings, Past, Trying

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• What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar.

  Jane Rogers

  Jesus, Liars, People

  Jane Rogers (2001). “Island”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others.

  John Key

  Helping Others, Trying, Belief

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The blacklist was a time of evil...no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil...[Looking] back on this time...it will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Hero, Evil, Sides

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• Saints are simply men & women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Women, Natural, Obligation

  "The letters of Evelyn Waugh".

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• Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Business, Hate, Stress

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• All expectations belong to the mind, all disciplines belong to the mind, all so-called saintliness and so-called sin belong to the mind. When there is no mind, there is no sinner and no saint, and the gift simply showers on you.

  Rajneesh

  Discipline, Expectations, Mind

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• Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Pain, Stupid, Class

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• There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.

  Isaac Watts

  Pain, Night, Land

  Isaac Watts (1811). “Hymns and Spiritual Songs ... With some additional hymns, taken from the Doctor's sermons”, p.180

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• Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.

  Henry Adams

  Fighting, Men, Soul And Body

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.13, Penguin

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• As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Hate, Believe, Moderates

  Lapham's Quarterly, Alexander Hamilton, Ezra Pound, Richard Hofstadter, Thomas Jefferson (2016). “Alexander Hamilton: Lapham's Quarterly - Special Issue”, p.63, Pronoun

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• The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Jobs, Opportunity, Men

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

  Abraham Maslow

  Wise, Hero, Needs

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• Today it is not alive. What, then, is this experience of humanism? With the above survey I have tried to show you that the experience of humanism is that — as Terence expressed it — “Nothing human is alien to me”; that nothing which exists in any human being does not exist in myself. I am the criminal and I am the saint. I am the child and I am the adult. I am the man who lived a hundred thousand years ago and I am the man who, provided we don't destroy the human race, will live hundred thousand years from now.

  Erich Fromm

  Children, Men, Years

  "On Being Human".

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