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• Well, normally I’m against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big.” — Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year)

  Pete Seeger

  Thinking, Years, World

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• In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Beautiful, Girl, Art

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• Memories of ice and Trent surfaced, and I wrapped my arms around my middle. I had saved him, and he had saved me. What was wrong with us?

  Kim Harrison

  Memories, Ice, Arms

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• Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Sea, Differences

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• WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU HADN'T SAVED HIM? "Yes! The sun would have risen just the same, yes?" NO "Oh, come on. You can't expect me to believe that. It's an astronomical fact." THE SUN WOULD NOT HAVE RISEN. ... "Really? Then what would have happened, pray?" A MERE BALL OF FLAMING GAS WOULD HAVE ILLUMINATED THE WORLD.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Balls, World

  "Hogfather". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1996.

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• He saved me. He freaking electrocuted himself to save me. I’m gonna be there when he wakes up so I can tell him thanks.

  Kiersten White

  Wake Up, Thanks, Save Me

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• I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Philosophical, Sheep, Enlightenment

  J. M. Coetzee (2016). “The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]”, p.22, Princeton University Press

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• We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Jesus, Christ, Persons

  "The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics".

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• I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life." "The firefly's ?" said the minstrel. "The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.

  James Thurber

  Mistake, Firefly, Two

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• I am no longer a shuddering speck of existence, alone in the darkness;--I belong to them and they to me; we all share the same fear and the same life...I could bury my face in them, in these voices, these words that have saved me and will stand by me.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Voice, Darkness, Stand By Me

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• In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A sense of time on our hands, a sense of nothing to do. A sense that we are not amused.

  Michael Crichton

  Hands, Boredom, Disease

  Michael Crichton (2000). “Timeline”

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• My life had taken a stranger turn than I could've ever imagined. What was I doing on this path? Where was I headed really? Who was I to take on a battle between powers I didn't understand— armed with a runaway cat, a uniquely bad drummer, a pair of garden shears, and an Ovaltine-drinking teen Galileo? To save a girl who didn't want to be saved?

  Kami Garcia

  Girl, Taken, Drinking

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• Of course, then you nearly crushed to death in front of my eyes. Later I thought of a perfectly good excuse for why I acted at that moment - because if I hadn't saved you, if your blood had been spilled there in front of me, I don't think I could have stopped myself from exposing us for what we are. But I only thought of that excuse later. At the time, all I could think was, 'Not her.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Eye, Thinking, Perfectly Good

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• He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

  Honore de Balzac

  Winning, Men, Lasts

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• I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Medicine, Religion

  Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Life and Writings of ...”

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• I'm just being selfish..... I'm here on my own free will... I used to always cry and give up... I nearly went the wrong way... But you... You showed me the right way... I was always chasing you... Wanting to overtake you... I just wanted to walk with you... I wanted to be with you... You changed me! Your smile saved me! So I'm not afraid to die protecting you!!! Because I - Love You.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Giving Up, Selfish, Love You

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• For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love; the passionate search for truth other than our own. With longing; the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Eye, Heart, Fate

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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• Running should be saved for the times when you're being chased.

  Simone Elkeles

  Running, Should

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• As a boy I heard this story in church. A man was patching a pitched roof of a tall building when he began sliding off. As he neared the edge of the roof he prayed, "Save me, Lord, and I'll go to church every Sunday, I'll give up drinking, I'll be the best man this city has ever known." As he finished his prayer, a nail snagged onto his overalls and saved him. The man looked up to the sky and shouted, "Never mind, God. I took care of it myself." How true of us.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Prayer, Giving Up, Drinking

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Jan 08, 2012

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• Coffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-togethers, a favorite grandfather long since gone, the AA meeting that saved their life. Coffee meant something to people. Most found their lives were miserable without it. Coffee was a lot like love that way. And because Rachel believed in love, she believed in coffee, too.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Morning, Memories, Coffee

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.150, Bantam

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• I was only glad to be saved and never once thought to ask why.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Glad, Asks

  Jennifer Donnelly (2010). “Revolution”, p.229, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• my 6 foot goddess makes me laugh the laughter of the mutilated who still need love... she has saved me from everything that is not here

  Charles Bukowski

  Laughter, Feet, Laughing

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Love is a Dog From Hell”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• The nobility of the human spirit grows harder for me to believe in. War, zealotry, greed, malls, narcissism. I see a backhanded nobility in excessive, impractical outlays of cash prompted by nothing loftier than a species joining hands and saying “I bet we can do this.” Yes, the money could be better spent on Earth. But would it? Since when has money saved by government red-lining been spent on education and cancer research? It is always squandered. Let’s squander some on Mars. Let’s go out and play.

  Mary Roach

  War, Cancer, Believe

  Mary Roach (2011). “Packing for Mars”, p.174, Oneworld Publications

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• The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Song, Prayer, Men

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• I think everyone must love life more than anything else in the world.' 'Love life more than the meaning of it?' 'Yes, certainly. Love it regardless of logic, as you say. Yes, most certainly regardless of logic, for only then will I grasp its meaning. That's what I've been vaguely aware of for a long time. Half your work is done, Ivan: you love life. Now you must try to do the second half and you are saved.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love Life, Thinking, World Love

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