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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Age Life Little Long
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

Fear Life Loss Misfortune
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All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Best Escape Interest Only
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

Fact Good Important Knowing
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Life is a sweeter, stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he is still thee to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

Admire Honor Serve Experience
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The awful penalty of success is the haunting dread of subsequent failure.
Failure Dread Success Awful
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It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

Solid Break Feel Term
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

Behavior Had Human Make
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But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.

About Alive Did Done
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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

About Again Beginning Came
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If I believe the same things today I did yesterday I've learned nothing.

Believe Today Learn Same
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And the more technically developed a nation or race is, the more cruel, ruthless, predatory, and commercialized its systems tend to become … all because we continue to think like animals and have not learned how to think consistently like human beings.

Human Animal Race Cruel
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When a people lose the courage to resist encroachment on their rights, then they can’t be saved by an outside force. Our belief is that people always have the kind of government they want and that individuals must bear the risks of freedom, even to the extent of giving their lives.

People Courage Resist Right
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His mind, grooved through the uncounted ages to ultimate despair, soared up insanely. His legs and arms glistened like tongues of living fire as they writhed and twisted in the light that blazed from the portholes. His mouth, a gash in his caricature of a human head, slavered a white frost that floated away in little frozen globules.

Light Mouth Gash Human
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You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.

Preach Sermons Sinners Short
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Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner

Motivated Goals Charge Unstoppable
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The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today

Limit Possibilities Tomorrow Today
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You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality

T^ake Making Dream Reality
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There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win

Winners Loser People Learned
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No one will take better care of your dream than you

Take Care Dream Better
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If you run around with 9 losers pretty soon you’ll be the 10th loser

Run Losers Soon Run
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Your dream was given to you. If someone else can’t see it for you, that’s fine, it was given to you and not them. It’s your dream. Hold it. Nourish it. Cultivate it

Given Dream Nourish Hold
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You must remain focused on your journey to greatness

Remain JourneyGreatness Focused
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Know your gifts and share them

Know Gift Share Them
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The people that want to step into their greatness are hungry

People Want Greatness Hungry
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In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact

Means Oppurtunities Positive Impact
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Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit

Too Low Miss Because
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Be willing to go all out, in pursuit of your dream. Ultimately it will pay off. You are more powerful than you think you are. Go for it

Ultimately Powerful Think Dream
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It has been said,most people die at age 25 and don’t get buried until they are 65.Make an effort to live your life to the fullest

Age Fullest Effort Buried
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Listen to yourself the voice that’s in your Heart not your head,it will lead you to your Goal

Yourself Heart Head Goal
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There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning

Ingredient Learning Earning Yearning
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You have to be willing to allow the person you are today to DIE so that you can give birth to the person you are meant to become

You have to be willing to allow the person you are today to DIE so that you can give birth to the person you are meant to become
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“The people that want to step into their greatness are hungry.”

People Hungry Greatness Want
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Your harvest is not in view until your prayers rise up to heaven.

Harvest Prayers Rise Heaven
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The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

Love Acknwoledge Gratitude Explicit
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Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

Powerful Powerless Gaints Paradox
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To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer.
Blessing Someone Most GIve
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In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

Poverty Mentally God Hold
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The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.

Spiritual Life Beyond Existence
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Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

Prayer Concrete Home God
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The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

Healing Friend Silent Grief
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People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone.

People Handicaps Hearts Together
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Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.

Discipline Everything Planned Create
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The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and careful analysis - to manifest the divine event of God's saving work in the midst of the many seemingly random events of their time.

Christian Leaders Trained Careful
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Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.

Peace Anger Trust Resentment
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Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.

Blessed Poor Deeper Communion
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The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

Journey Teaching Love Allowing
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I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.

Increasing Crisis Stronger Journey
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To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age.

Minister Precise Powerlessness Seldom
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Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them with His blessing they will move mountains and change the hearts of people wherever they go.

Blessing Ministers Weakness Serve
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