"Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth,...
The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb.
~ John Steinbeck ~
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The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb.
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"A man can do a lot of damage in the church. When someone comes here, he's got his guard up. But in church a man's wide open.
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"Got a lot of sinful idears--but they seem kinda sensible.
"An' I got to thinkin', on'y it wasn't thinkin', it was deeper down than thinkin'.