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• I guess the verdict is in - I am not a sociopath. It's not effective or productive not to be nice. It would undermine the goals I want to achieve on any given day.

  Whitney Cummings

  Nice, Goal, Want

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• Maybe I had more wrinkles than I would if I hadn't spent so much of my life outdoors, but I didn't care. It was a privilege to grow old, and not everyone got to enjoy it. I was grateful for every minute I was given.

  Diane Chamberlain

  Life, Grateful, Wrinkles

  Diane Chamberlain (2009). “The Bay at Midnight”, p.96, Harlequin

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• We’ve been given the covenant community because we need each other, and together we’ll be more mature, experience more life, and know more joy than we ever would apart from one another.

  Matt Chandler

  Community, Joy, Together

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• Given our abundance, the burden of proof should always be on keeping, not giving. Why would you not give? We err by beginning with the assumption that we should keep or spend the money God entrusts to us. Giving should be the default choice. Unless there is a compelling reason to spend it or keep it, we should give it.

  Randy Alcorn

  Compelling Reason, Burden Of Proof, Giving

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.638, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Children, Emotion, Discouraging

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.309, Delphi Classics

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• We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live

  Peter McWilliams

  Suicide, Exercise, Animal

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• It is my assumption that growth in faith is the root of all spiritual growth and is prior to all disciplines of works. True spirituality is not a superhuman religiosity; it is simply true humanity released from bondage to sin and renewed by the Holy Spirit. This is given to us as we grasp by faith the full content of Christ's redemptive work: freedom from the guilt and power of sin, and newness of life through the indwelling and outpouring of his Spirit.

  Richard Lovelace

  Spiritual, Roots, Discipline

  "Dynamics of Spiritual Life".

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• That two bodies press convulsively together, man and woman, he fertilizing her, he giving her a budding life, or he planting a seed, a seed of life in her womb - Oh God. I think this God-given idea is so enormous, so eternal, so endlessly wise - that people should not be allowed to depict it in art!!

  Gustav Vigeland

  Wise, Art, Men

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• A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

  Anne Sweeney

  Jobs, Focus, Leader

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• Children allowed to take responsibility and given a serious part in the larger world are always superior to those merely permitted to play and be passive.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Responsibility, Play

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• If custom is to avail for proof of soundness, we too, surely, may advance our prevailing custom; and if they reject this, we are surely not bound to follow theirs. Let the inspired Scripture, then, be our umpire, and the vote of truth will surely be given to those whose dogmas are found to agree with the Divine words.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Umpires, May, Scripture

  Gregory of Nyssa (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Gregory of Nyssa (Annotated Edition)”, p.668, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Wages cannot be considered as a gift, because they are due to work, but God has given free grace to all men by the justification of faith.

  Hilary of Poitiers

  God, Faith, Religious

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• Thus the evidence given by those five new thigh bones of the morphological and functional distinctness of Pithecanthropus erectus furnishes proof, at the same time, of its close affinity with the gibbon group of anthropoid apes.

  Eugene Dubois

  Apes, Groups, Bones

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• A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.

  Gregory Bateson

  Sphinx, Answers, Form

  Gregory Bateson, Mary Catherine Bateson (1987). “Angels fear: towards an epistemology of the sacred”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• The Children's Health Insurance Program has given Democrats a wide-open door for socialized medicine. The door was left open by Republicans, who were in the majority when we passed the original legislation in 1997.

  Jack Kingston

  Children, Doors, Medicine

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• This program could destroy private initiative for our aged to protect themselves with insurance against the cost of illness....Presently, over 60 percent of our older citizens purchase hospital and medical insurance without Government assistance. This private effort would cease if Government benefits were given to all our older citizens.

  Milward L. Simpson

  Government, Effort, Medical Insurance

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• Have you taught a Sunday School class and felt when you finished that you had really taught someone some principle of the gospel that had really helped him or given him a brighter look on life? Remember the feeling of peace and joy that followed? Have you ever taught someone the gospel and received that feeling of joy because he had accepted what you had been teaching? The thrill of missionary work!

  Eldred G. Smith

  Teaching, School, Sunday

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• My only joys therefore are that when God has given me a work to do, I have not refused it.

  Charles Studd

  Joy, Missionary, Missions

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• Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.

  David Livingstone

  Missionary, Purpose, Missions

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• I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

  Stephanie Mills

  Trying, Never Quit, Quitting

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• The faster you work and the more you get done, the better you feel. Most successful people work at a higher tempo of activity than unsuccessful people. They don't necessarily do different things, but they get things done more efficiently in a given time than the average person.

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Work, Average

  Brian Tracy (2007). “Time Power: A Proven System for Getting More Done in Less Time Than You Ever Thought Possible”, p.157, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• The animals you say were 'sent' for man's free use and nutriment. Pray, then, inform me, and be candid, why came they aeons before man did, to spend long centuries on earth. Awaiting their devourer's birth? Those ill-timed chattels, sent from heaven, were, sure, the maddest gift e'er given - 'sent' for man's use (can man believe it?) when there was no man to receive it!

  Henry Stephens Salt

  Believe, Men, Animal

  "Seventy Years Among Savages". Book by Henry Stephens Salt, 1921.

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• BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Belief, Asks, Earnestness

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.19, 谷月社

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• Hackman's paradox: Groups have natural advantages: they have more resources than individuals; greater diversity of resources; more flexibility in deploying the resources; many opportunities for collective learning; and, the potential for synergy. Yet studies show that their actual performance often is subpar relative to "nominal" groups (i.e. individuals given the same task but their results are pooled.) The two most common reasons: groups are assigned work that is better done by individuals or are structured in ways that cap their full potential.

  J. Richard Hackman

  Opportunity, Often Is, Two

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• Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back.

  Epictetus

  Coping, Lost, Difficulty

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