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I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.
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As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositions of who he is, and what he teaches, insofar as taking for granted our own caricatures of him. Let it boil in both mind and heart the question, 'If Jesus were to appear today, how many of us would actually recognize him and his teachings (or would it simply be a recount of his first visit)?
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The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging.
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Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.
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All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego.
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Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.
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Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.
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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 only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
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