A Quote by Peter Høeg
It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.
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You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.
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