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Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive.

Bill Vaughan

Look for strength in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.
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Evil People Weakness
A nation has character only when it is free.
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Character Liberty Nations
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
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Age Aristocracy Successive Superiority Vanity
The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough.
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Differences Holy Ignore Long People
There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.
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Demerits Emotionally Fish Once React
In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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Bird Century Firsts God Next
You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
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Frogs Ocean Understanding
The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn’t matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
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Contentment Greed Strong
Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate.
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Animal Chocolate Cows
The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
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Decision Developing Real Support
Because, as we are told-a sad old joke, too- Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
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Ghost Speak Spokes
Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
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Christmas Motivational New Year
One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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Conceit Pride Thinking
By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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Elderly Funny Witty
I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
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Attorney General Hope Law Left Men Years
Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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Conversation People Pocket Watches

Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive.

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