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Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.
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I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.
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Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself.
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Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.
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A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.
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God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.
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A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.
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Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.
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Gloating is a superficial glowing, floating is an idle flowing, and bloatedness is the paralysis of blowing up; because silent movement results in loud victories.
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Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil.
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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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I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.
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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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Credentials are like potential energy, the compliments of a name on paper, in documents, word of mouth, but faith is like kinetic energy, the motion and the force that which is witnessed. Hence in the end it is the faith rather than the credentials that really takes you places.
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The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.
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I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.
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In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.
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The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.
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What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.
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An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.
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Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither.
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Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.
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The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.
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Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun.
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Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.
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