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Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.

Bill Vaughan

He (God) doesn’t need me, but He desires me.
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Desire Individual Needs
Goal achievement is hero’s work.
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Goal Hero Men
Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind’s and God’s.
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Claims Country God Mankind
Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
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Dark Funny Teeth
How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
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Dazzling Firsts Moral Thinking
Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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Atheism Atheist God Positive
It’s not what’s going to happen, but who’s coming.
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Coming Happens Jesus
The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
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Said Salvation Saved
One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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Conceit Pride Thinking
They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
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Book Depend Give Science Strength Upon
Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
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Experience Thinking
The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
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Character Forgiveness United States
Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!
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Believe Civilization Luxury
Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They’re worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win
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Art Military Success
Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.
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Cops Improved Punishment Television
Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.
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Blushes Modesty Rainbow
Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
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Fitness Sarcasm Sarcastic
There’s something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
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Butter Chicken Couple Cows Eggs Price Something
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
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Anger Animal Men Problem Space
In the game of life, it’s a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
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Funny Inspirational Life
Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’, and other such simple courtesies.
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Expression Kind Simple
God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.
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Age Authority Hours Instrument
The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
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Christmas Ideal Trouble
The message that underlies healing is simple yet radical: We are already whole…. Underneath our fears and worries, unaffected by the many layers of our conditioning and actions, is a peaceful core.
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Healing Health Simple
Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?
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Among Cannibal Vegetarians
Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
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Enemy Giving Needs Patience Wisdom
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
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Character Fire Gillitering Heaven Martyrs Massive Strongest

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