"Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit."
-Martha Gellhorn
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"After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.“
-Martha Gellhorn
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"It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination."
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"Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives."
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"And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish."
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"Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives."
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"Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her."
-James Hal Cone
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"I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind."
-Saint Bernard
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"I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs."
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"Faith is a higher faculty than reason."
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"I've always had great faith in people."
-Wayne Newton
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"I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey."
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