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• Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature.

  Laozi

  Positivity, Years, Roots

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• In this modern world plagued with counterfeits for the Lord's plan, we must not be misled into supposing that we can discharge our obligations to the poor and the needy by shifting the responsibility to some governmental or other public agency. Only by voluntarily giving out of an abundant love for our neighbors can we develop that charity characterized by Mormon as "the pure love of Christ." (Moro.7:47) This we must develop if we would obtain eternal life.

  Marion G. Romney

  Responsibility, Supposing That, Agency

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• Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in death we can picture in sleep. All our sufferings vanish in sleep. When death comes, all our mortal tortures cease; they cannot go beyond the portals of death.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Death, Sleep, Thinking

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• Anything can serve as a counterfeit god, especially the very best things in life.

  Timothy Keller

  Things In Life, Best Things In Life, Best Things

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.11, Penguin

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• True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.

  John Henry Newman

  Spring, Roots, Intellectual

  Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press (2009). “The Idea of a University”, p.165, Aeterna Press

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• The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends.

  B. F. Skinner

  Teacher, Winning, Parent

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• A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit.

  Bill Johnson

  Church, Devil, Powerless

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• The intimate coupling of two men or two women is not marriage. It is a pale and misshapen counterfeit that will only serve to empty marriage of its meaning and destroy the institution that is the keystone in the arch of civilization... Marriage is the sine qua non for healthy children and a stable society. It is 'fundamental to the very existence and survival of the race.'

  D. James Kennedy

  Children, Men, Race

  "Kennedy Calls for Constitutional 'Firewall' to Protect Marriage". Center for Reclaiming America for Christ, November 19, 2003.

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• The devil has been painted swarthy, cloven-footed, horned, and hideous. Do we expect to see him in that shape? O, surely it would be better for us, if he did come in that shape! The trouble is the devil never does come in that shape. He comes by chance, with unregistered signals, and in all sorts of counterfeit presentiments.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Devil, Doe, Would Be

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• The face of Truth is not less fair and beautiful for all the counterfeit visors which have been put upon her.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Beautiful, Truth, Faces

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• Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Monsters, States

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• Downy sleep, death's counterfeit.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [83]

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• Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Taken, Errors, Deceit

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• Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.

  Ayn Rand

  Gun, Men, Political

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1448, Penguin

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• The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Grace, Devil, Saving

  Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1829). “A treatise concerning religious affections. Five discourses on important subjects”, p.62

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• Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence.

  Bill Johnson

  Excellence, Might, Kingdoms

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• They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.

  Cornelia Funke

  Cash, Detectives, Left

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• Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient

  Marcel Proust

  Lying, Doctors, Neurosis

  Le Cote de Guermantes Pt 1

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• If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.

  Nick Turse

  Government, Guides, Your Future

  "Misremembering America’s Wars, 2003-2053" by Nick Turse, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 18, 2014.

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• If he's going to be the counterfeit of Christ, the Antichrist has to be Jewish. The only thing we know is he must be male and Jewish.

  Jerry Falwell

  Sick, Males, Offensive

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• No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are forced to protect your self-esteem by fighting for the creed of self-destruction. The grim joke is on you: that need of self-esteem, which you're unable to explain or to define, belongs to my morality, not yours; it's the objective token of my code, it is my proof within your own soul.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Fighting, Soul

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.143, Penguin

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• Christian Research Institute will continue doing what we do ... making people so familiar with truth that when counterfeits loom on the horizon, they know it instantaneously. So we're a discernment ministry, continually trying to build Christians up so that they can discern between truth and error.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Christian, Errors, People

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Affectation naturally counterfeits those excellences which are placed at the greatest distance from possibility of attainment, because, knowing our own defects, we eagerly endeavor to supply them with artificial excellence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Distance, Knowing, Excellence

  Samuel Johnson (1851). “The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works”, p.9

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• He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.

  John Dryden

  Curiosity, Behind The Scenes, Behinds

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• True modesty is a discerning grace
  And only blushes in the proper place;
  But counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear,
  Where 'tis a shame to be asham'd t' appear:
  Humility the parent of the first,
  The last by vanity produc'd and nurs'd.

  William Cowper

  Humility, Vanity, Parent

  William Cowper (1852). “Poems”, p.125

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