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• The main point is first get the right people on the bus (and wrong people off the bus) before you figure out where to drive it. The second key point is the degree of sheer rigor in people decisions in order to take a company from Good to Great.

  James C. Collins

  Keys, People, Decision

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• In order to be a writer, first you must become an alive dead spirit.

  William C. Brown

  Alive, Firsts, Spirit

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• One seeks to know the self better in order to know God better.

  Edwin Gaustad

  Self, Knowing God, Knows

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• Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love You, Love Is, Understanding

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.171, Harmony

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• The profound political changes we need in order to heal our planet will not come about through fragmented problem solving or intellectual analyses that overlook the deepest yearnings and intuitions of the heart....As we begin to cultivate a rich inner life and experience our connection with all life, we realize how little of what society tells us we need is actually important for our well-being....Green politics must address the spiritual vacuum of industrial society.

  Petra Kelly

  Spiritual, Heart, Profound

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• Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.

  Anatole France

  Beautiful, Errors, Justice

  Anatole France (2015). “The Amethyst Ring: Works by France”, p.75, 谷月社

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• Sourav's calm and assured presence sets him apart. His captaincy is of a high order but he bats sensibly and reads situations well. I hope Sourav too becomes a World Cup wining captain.

  Lata Mangeshkar

  Bats, World, Captains

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• The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we are obliged to create our own language, it is because there are dimensions to ourselves absent from clichés, which require us to flout etiquette in order to convey with greater accuracy the distinctive timbre of our thought.

  Alain de Botton

  Ideas, Dimensions, Language

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• The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that are not even their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another, their walk by the pace of another, who are under orders in case of the freest things in the world-loving and hating. If these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their own.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hate, Sleep, Wish

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• Jesus has given me ample resources to meet the spiritual needs of others because He has given me Himself and He has give me His Word. But in order to meet the spiritual needs of the multitude, I have to spend hours alone with Him in the prayerful meditation of His Word so that my spiritual needs are met.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Spiritual, Jesus, Giving

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• Are we willing to risk being misunderstood and maligned in order that truth might be told and men might be saved? Identifying a malady and explaining its seriousness are always the first steps to finding a cure... God has ordained that men come to conviction of sin, repentance, and saving faith through preaching. Yet how can the [Holy] Spirit use our preaching if we are not willing to expose sin or call men to repentance?

  Paul Washer

  Men, Risk, Misunderstood

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• It's my duty to fight those who have chosen to belong to the party of death, those who say they receive their orders from God somewhere and believe they have a duty to set the world on fire to achieve their own salvation.

  Wole Soyinka

  Party, Believe, Fighting

  "Criticism Starts at Home". Interview with Henry Louis Gates Jr., www.nytimes.com. August 5, 2004.

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• In order to know how to talk, you have to know what to say. In order to know what to say, you have to get in touch with those deep-inside-of-you thoughts, feelings, needs, and yearnings. These are the parts of you that must be communicated if you are going to be known.

  Neil Clark Warren

  Feelings, Needs, Yearning

  Neil Clark Warren (1998). “Learning to Live with the Love of Your Life... and Loving It”, Focus on the Family Pub

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• The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.

  Yolanda Adams

  Years, Albums, Great Things

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• I say unto you with all the soberness I can, that we stand in danger of losing our liberties, and that once lost, only blood will bring them back; and we of this church will, in order to keep the Church going forward, have more sacrifices to make, and more persecutions to endure than we have yet known. If the conspiracy comes here it will probably come in its full vigor and there will be a lot of vacant places among those who guide and direct, not only this government, but also this Church of ours.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Sacrifice, Government, Blood

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• God will never adjust His agenda to fit ours. He will not speed up His pace to catch up with ours; we need to slow our pace in order to recover our walk with Him. God will not scream and shout over the noisy clamor; He expects us to seek quietness, where His still small voice can be heard again.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Voice, Needs, Pace

  Charles R. Swindoll (2011). “The Owner's Manual for Christians: The Essential Guide for a God-Honoring Life”, p.76, Thomas Nelson

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• God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.

  William Barclay

  Selfish, Heart, Men

  William Barclay (1999). “Good Tidings of Great Joy: The Birth of Jesus the Messiah”, p.48, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Actually, most mathematics courses do not teach reasoning of any kind. Students are so baffled by the material that they are obliged to memorize in order to pass examinations.

  Morris Kline

  Examination, Baffled, Students

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• The Creator, the fountain of all wisdom, the approver of perpetual order, the eternal and superessential spring of geometry and harmonics.

  Johannes Kepler

  Spring, Fountain, Geometry

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• In order to be successful, all you've got to do is show up 80 percent of the time.

  Woody Allen

  Successful, Shows, Percent

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• Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

  Saint Augustine

  War, Provoking

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• Angels are God's messengers whose chief business is to carry out his orders in the world. He has given them an ambassadorial charge. He has designated and empowered them as holy deputies to perform works of righteousness. In this way they assist him as their creator while he sovereignly controls the universe. So he has given them the capacity to bring holy enterprises to a successful conclusion.

  Billy Graham

  Angel, Successful, World

  Billy Graham (2011). “Angels: Ringing Assurance that We Are Not Alone”, p.18, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In the late 1930s, both the British and American movie industries made a succession of films celebrating the decency of the British Empire in order to challenge the threatening tide of Nazism and fascism and also to provide employment for actors from Los Angeles's British colony. The best two were Hollywood's Gunga Din and Britain's The Four Feathers...

  Philip French

  Two, Challenges, Employment

  "The Four Feathers" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2007.

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• Our Heavenly Healer often has to hurt us in order to heal us. We sometimes fail to recognize His mighty love in this, yet we are firmly held always in the Everlasting Arms.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Hurt, Arms, Sometimes

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• But that is not because these principles are traditional; it is because they are biblical. There is certainly an arrogant, hide-bound type of traditionalism, unthinking and uncritical, which is carnal and devilish. But there is also a respectful willingness to take help from the Church's past in order to understand the Bible in the present; and such traditionalism is spiritual and Christian.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Spiritual, Biblical

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.20, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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