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Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

— Beverly Sills Misattributed

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A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

The Quotable Woman (1978)

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Conquering an Enemy Called Average (1996)

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up. I'm not about to change now.

Beverly : An Autobiography (1988)

There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm. Men will always be attracted to women with nice soft arms and a fleshy bosom.

TIME Vol. 120 (1982)

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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan (1923)

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence, from Jerusalem, of a lunatic asylum.

Havelock Ellis

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law].

Thomas Jefferson Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764)

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