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I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die. -- Jimmy Piersall
The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us. -- Philip Yancey
The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges. -- Wallace Smith Broecker
the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me. -- Ralph Ellison
All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised. -- Mark Twain
Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples - an ornery, undependable, and hopelessly flawed group of men - became drunk with the power of a gospel that offered free forgiveness to the worst sinners and traitors. Those men managed to change the world. -- Philip Yancey

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