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Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God’s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 26, 2002
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Painting in watercolor is like walking a tight-rope; one must achieve a perfect balance between what the paint wants to do and what the artist wants to do, or all is lost.: Mary C. Taylor, Watercolor Bold and Free
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You always pass failure on the way to success.: Mickey Rooney (1920 - )
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The key to non-anxious sermon-writing is that it’s not about me. It’s about the congregation. I honor the fact that the listeners bring more to the sermon than I do. I remind myself of the hundreds of times someone says, 'I loved how you said…' and then tell me things that they heard that were nowhere in my text and that I never said. But they heard what they needed to hear.: Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 04-07-2006
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There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
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Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.: Carlos Castaneda
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.: Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941), The Waves (1931)
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.: Howard Newton
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What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.: Samuel McChord Crothers
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If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.: Steve Pavlina, How to Win an Argument, 08-31-05
Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.: Les Brown, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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I improve on misquotation.: Cary Grant (1904 - 1986)
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To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.: Fritz Kunkel
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