“In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.”
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If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
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Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.
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