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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Filled Purpose Empty Age
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Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

Interest Been Done Lived
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Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.

Dabble Fifty Give Man
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There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.

Bible Defend Better Book
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A good example is far better than a good precept.

Precept Good Better Far
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A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.

Doctrine Creed Friend Christ
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War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Being Dead Good Good Human
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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Hunger Nationalism Power Self-Deception
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Beings Good Human Human Beings
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It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Words Capable Known Faith
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Bound Disregard Fair Fair Play
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A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

Know Ought Family Live
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I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

Other Man Myself Had
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We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

Affliction Better Forget God
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We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

People Belong Speaking Heaven
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

Animals Cannot Catch Consumes
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We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining - they just shine.

Shine Attention Call Fire
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Character is what a man is in the dark.
Character Dark Man
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Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.

Bible Hundred Man Read
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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Death May Jesus King
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Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.

Anything Dare Jesus Never
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God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

Clean Ones Silver Vessels
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Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.

Sick Blood Rich Vital
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I played without fear. I've done that since I first kicked a ball in my back garden as a five-year-old, whether it's been my first game, my 100th game, or my 500th game.

Game First Done Garden
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Aims Between Clear Enemy
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That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.

Ball Injured Respect Nasty
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Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

Duty First Intelligent Men
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I have always thought if there is a game, and there have been a lot of fouls on me, then I have been playing well for the team, so that means we're having a good match. You can win a free-kick when there's a foul, and that's a chance to score a goal.

Goal Chance Foul Win
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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
Also Constantly Good Like
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.

Rules Difficult Small Game
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The more you play against teams and defenders, the more you get to know them. You know if they are more nervous; you know, on the pitch, people are different. I try to adapt to their character.

Adapt People Nervous Teams
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Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

About Bring Chaos Connected
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Anything Hear Liberty Means
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Any strengthening of the squad, in a League and Champions League which demands so much, is a good thing because you need many top quality players.

Quality Good Players Top
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Accepting Beliefs Both Contradictory
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It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.

Always Big Costs Never
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In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
Age Folly Hatred Issues
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I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.

Again Even Happens Laugh
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In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Defense Largely Our Our Time
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If you told me to choose between family and football, then it is no choice. I take family, of course, like everyone. But I prefer to keep it private, and that's it. I just focus on the football.

Family Course Focus Prefer
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Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.

Brothers Close Everywhere Family
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The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

About Atrocities Capacity Committed
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When the game is finished, it's completely finished. I'm with my kids. Sometimes people say to me, 'Oh, did you see the game?' and I say, 'No, I didn't see the game'. I watch if my friends are playing or my brothers. But not always.

Game Kids Friends Watch
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Being Being Human Does Essence
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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
Altogether Back His Look
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Even on earth, the most powerful forces are unseen. Electricity is unseen, without it our modern world will not be so modern. The Internet is unseen. So, don't be doubtful of God because He is unseen.

Earth Power force Electricity Unseen
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Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Appearance Designed Give Language
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Freedom Ignorance Peace Slavery
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Why are people surprised when others change? Only a statue doesn't change.

Change Surprise Statute People
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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
Concept Fading History Lies
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