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• The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.

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  Simple, Roles, Genius

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.94, Criss Jami

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• Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.

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  Jobs, Laughter, Heart

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.102, Criss Jami

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• Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.

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  Artist, Being Different, Labels

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.67, Criss Jami

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• Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.

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  Thinking, Train Of Thought, Track

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.22, Criss Jami

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• The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.

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  Powerful, Adversity, Order

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.42, Criss Jami

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• To believe in the truth of Christ is to be introduced to another form of hatred, and that is not sharing Him.

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  Believe, Hatred, Christ

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.29, Criss Jami

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• The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.

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  Fall, Heart, Stronger

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.77, Criss Jami

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• A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

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  Ambition, People, Way

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.1, Criss Jami

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• Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.

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  Sunshine, Thunderstorm

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.38, Criss Jami

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• Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection.

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  Fighting, Men, Order

  Criss Jami (2012). “Venus in Arms”, p.38, Criss Jami

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• We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.

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  Children, Parent, Firsts

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.53, Criss Jami

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• The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

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  Artist, Stories, Wells

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.88, Criss Jami

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• You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.

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  Believe, World, Compliment

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.37, Criss Jami

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• Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.

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  Humility, Admitting, Egotistical

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.61, Criss Jami

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• The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers.

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  Crazy, Ambition, Mad

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• The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

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  People, Mad, Guessing

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.30, Criss Jami

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• When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority.

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  People, Different, Divine

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.36, Criss Jami

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• You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

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  Worst

  Criss Jami (2013). “Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality”, p.66, Criss Jami

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• You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.

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  Football, Running, Fear

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.101, Criss Jami

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• I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.

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  Art, Enjoy, Take Me

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.19, Criss Jami

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• Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.

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  Hypocrisy, Neutrality, Easier

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.77, Criss Jami

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• Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most definitely supposed to be a hospital for the spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically sick, hurting, and broken individual, yet ironically, many of its critics are those who ran away and permanently denounced its members after they visited and felt that they were sneezed on.

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  Hurt, Humility, Black And White

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.26, Criss Jami

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• In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.

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  Lying, Eye, Men

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.87, Criss Jami

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• Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.

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  Simplicity, Genius, Vivid

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.124, Criss Jami

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• I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.

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  Contentment, Negative, Shows

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.60, Criss Jami

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