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The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.
The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.
I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.
I remember little of the Yukon or what I wrote there.
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.
Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.
I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.
There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.
On some peculiar pigmented cells found in two mosquitoes fed on malarial.
The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite - what if the parasites get into the system in this manner.
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.
I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily.
I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.
The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.
A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.
After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.
Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy.
Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.
Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.
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