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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.

Bill Vaughan

Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
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Chief Embroidery Humility
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
Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one’s balance.
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Balance Comprehensive Down Thinking
Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
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Conclusion Research Results Reviews Show
Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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Atheism Atheist God Positive
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
Goal achievement is hero’s work.
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Goal Hero Men
The more we succeed, the more we’re seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.
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Control Everything Future Revelation Seduce Sense
The wise individual doesn’t get too attached to any of life’s pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it’s bad for him.
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Knowing Wise Wonderful
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
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Details Men Patience
Most of us wait until we’re in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we’d wake up and say, “Anything I can do for You today, Lord?”
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God Morning Waiting
Letters should be easy and natural.
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Easy Letters Natural
Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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Conversation People Pocket Watches
And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
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Discussion Hence Intellectual Strength Theological
We didn’t used to think that having several of these little risk factors were a big deal. But it is. These little risk factors add up in a way that is worse for you than one big risk factor.
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Big Deal Factor Risk Several Way
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

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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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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