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His hands would plait the priests guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.
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Denis Diderot

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When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.
Religion
Karl Kraus

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I shall always be a priest of love.
Love
D. H. Lawrence

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A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.
Nuns
H. L. Mencken

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I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.
Preachers and Preaching
Martin Scorsese

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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
War
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Poetry and Poets
Wallace Stevens

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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
Fiction
Gore Vidal

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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Confession
Oscar Wilde

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Friends and Friendship
Virginia Woolf

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun