Human beings, when confronted with the strange and inexplicable, have an immediate instinct to get back to the accustomed and the normal. We do not hug our miracles close; we put them hastily away, preferring the commonplace to live with it. It is as if some compulsive hand wipes clean the wall on which the handwriting appeared. Fulton Oursler
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  1. Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

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