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Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.

Overconfident Think Bite Snap
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Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

Cultivate Weak Love Unfortunate
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I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

Surprise Dream Honesty Moon
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It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.

Exercise Privilege Vastly Important
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A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

Majority Good Right Truth
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The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.

Severe Constant Result Progress
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In all things social we can be as seperate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

Social Progress Hand Finger
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The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.

Merit Universal Human Reward
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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient, and polite.

Polite Grow Result Patient
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Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.

Growth Great Trials Remain
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we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.

Project Attitude Feeling Assume
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Imagine that Jesus is calling you today. He extends a second invitation to accept His Father's love. And maybe you answer,

Today Accept Love Answer
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And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately wanting to get out, a young person feeling the fire in the belly begin to grow cold. You may be insecure, inadequate, mistaken or potbellied. Death, panic, depression, and disillusionment may be near you. But you are not just that. You are accepted.' Never confuse your perception of yourself with the mystery that you really are accepted.

Grace Old Die Confuse
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The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.

Sorrow Fear Life Approach
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When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.

Grace Wallow Guilt Remorse
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Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone... Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defined by tenderness.

Wisdom Awaken Security Scripture
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For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ.

Demand Faith Courage Present
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A lot of times you have to dip into the independent world to find the really great projects and the really great scripts. They're out there - you just have to search hard.

Great World Hard Search
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When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit.

Spirit Mind Idea Child
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Experience has taught me that I connect best with others when I connect with the core of myself. When I allow God to liberate me from unhealthy dependence on people, I listen more attentively, love more unselfishly, and am more compassionate and playful. I take myself less seriously, become aware that the breath of the Father is on my face.

Experience Taught Connect Best
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No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words.

Word Adequately Explain Single
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Jesus was victorious not because he never flinched, talked back, or questioned, but having flinched, talked back, and questioned, he remained faithful.

Victorious Flinched Questioned Faitful
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God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.
Love Nobody God Because
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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Season State Mind Peace
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If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

Judge Reach False Aspiration
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Don't you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?

Keep Sit Life Disappear
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Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Easy Country Understand Mean
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There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.

Form Strategy Confidence Succeed
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Growth Effort Work Depend
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I'd rather have money and be broken-hearted than be broke and broken-hearted.

Money Rather Broken Hearted
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I was always scared to follow my dreams because if I follow my dreams and I fail, I can't dream about it anymore. It's easier to settle for less.

Scared Follow Dream Because
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I do feel kind of guilty sometimes 'cause, like, I could buy myself a $5,000 dress or a $3,000 dress, and I'm buying these things, but I'm knowing that my cousin need money for the rent. And then I gotta tell myself, 'Stop feeling guilty. You worked for this.'

Feel Guilty Sometimes Like
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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

Atheism Look System Solar
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It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Leadership Danger Celebrate Victory
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If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Language Head Heart Understand
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

Sky Dream Work Conspires
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Vain Intellect Hand Mystery
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It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

Look Depend Thing How
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Hang Talent Dangerous Great
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An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Heart Enough Brilliant Gratitude
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Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Power Love Shadow Rule
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Develop Faliure Success Stone
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Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

Fool Condemn Criticize Complain
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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.

Logic Pride Vanity People
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When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

Power Hate Over Sleep
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Between Human Qualities Little
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I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.

Fact Individual Mind Avoid
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whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

Apply Good Lacking Supply
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Talk to someone about themselves and they’ll listen for hours.

Listen Talk Someone Hours
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Even god doesn’t propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?

Judge Propose Man Day
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