Quotes From John Clifford Lehman Jr 1955-1991
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I had a while as an atheist but now look upon it
as a philosophy is the cans tied on the back of a shotgun wedding car."
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"Once you have been the great hitter of love it's time to become the great coach of love."
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"I ran for first Godhood last week and lost so now I'm playing
third."
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"I was a victim of exhaustion from examining my conscience."
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"We cannot rest. We have more chimneys to go down."
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"The Pope is Catholic. Jesus is beyond the division of sect."
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"The mandate bird flies away so quickly after an election. It is
not that the public is fickle but that the bird was mythical."
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"Love your enemies. You never really know what your friends think
of you."
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"You have enfired my love. You can never fire my love."
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"12 step programs assert that nonbelievers may someday believe in God if now they can believe in the believers in God."
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"I know one man who was so divided about whether to go
to Vietnam.. or to be a conscientious objector.. he
became a schizophrenic. They put his name on the Vietnam War Memorial twice.."
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"We have a friend who generates heat by rubbing his cold heart against his dry brain."
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"Greater love hath no man than to live his life for his friend."
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"I read that the antiChrist is distance."
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"The door to heaven and hell are the same door."
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"I'd get out of bed and get my wife coffee
but I don't want Colombo to see me naked."
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"They have now discovered that the Messiah has come again..
they can't release the news til he gives up smoking."
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"Humor makes connections where logic fails."
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"At the North Pole, all directions are south. Take 1 step
in any direction and the world of East, West, North and South
reappears. When stuck in indecision, take 1 step in any direction."
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"Women have been on pedestals, men on thrones."
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"If you break Lizzie Borden's crime into a number of tiny bits,
no piece would be big enough to convict her of a crime, said
Clarence Darrow."
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"Lady Conductor......She raised her baton....and Beethoven answered
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"You do not need to believe you are Christ to act like Him."
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"His wife has transcended duality. All are one... until an attractive woman walks into the room."
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"My wife and I are one. To each other we chirp. To humans
we talk philosophy."
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"My wife organized the Jewish Women's Caucus boycott of Moses..
wait.. ! I am receiving a correction !
My wife was the VERY LAST woman to join the Jewish Women's
Caucus boycott of Moses!"
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"Dodging winks is the game of a faithful man."
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"My mother's heart is so big it has its own zip code."
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"I went to school every day with my John Glenn astronaut lunchbox
and inside it was wrapped my mother's love."
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"The Holy Spirit is here. He's playing third base."
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"It's best to wait until the other guy draws because he won't."
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"I'd rather be with Charles Manson an hour after he won the lottery
than with Albert Schweitzer during a bout of diarrhea."
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"I used to think my only choices were to be a hero going to hell or a chicken going to hell. Now I realize a loving God could never create anything but perfection out of His perfection. Nor
does God desire one jot of unnecessary suffering."
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"I say 'man' as downbeat for the rhythm of a sentence."
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"When I was younger I thought that if prayer worked the
CIA would have nuclear prayer jammers around the world."
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"The nihilism I was taught in philosophy class nearly destroyed me."
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"John Connally comes out onto his estate lawn in pajamas
surveying the forced auction of his possessions and asks if anyone
has a cup of coffee."
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"The faces of starving children won't leave my mind... like uranium waste in a dumpsite."
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"Sometimes it is not necessary.. to solve he problem.
Changing angle of vision...dissolves the problem ."
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"Don't hold onto yesterday's manna... today's is better."
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"As the dam separates the river from itself, so does rebellion separate us from God."
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"Satan is the reverse mirror image of Jesus."
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"When I was little the minister in our church said we were all
sinners and I thought Not my Uncle Bill."
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"I prefer veni and vici to VD."
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"Answers are evil. I try to remain in the hub of all possibility."
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"Many have screwed the truth, but few
have called her the next day."
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"God made blacks to find out which whites were going to hell.
He made universities as a place where smart people need
not tell the truth."
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"The only moment of victory for the champion runner is the precise second he crosses the finish line, when most in the stands could
beat him."
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"It's time we declared love on Muslim countries."
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"Do not donut."
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"My father's will was so powerful it was a police escort into reality."
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"Hell...is the no smoking section of heaven."
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"I was a tv monitor for the NSA. I was supposed to report any sudden weight changes in Mother Angelica."
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When I was in bed with rose I did not think of lying beneath a bed of roses
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