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God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.

God tests Common occurrences Little things
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Whatsoever is done out of pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the sight of men, is wholly fruitful; for God measures more with how much love one worketh, than the amount he doeth.

Done Pure love Contemptible Men
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In Christ was united the human and the divine. His mission was to reconcile God to man, and man to God; to unite the finite with the infinite.
Christ United Human Reconcile God
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It’s like losing gravity and falling into space – the moment of pitching headlong when the endlessness of space asserts itself and there is no more down, only an eternity of up, and you realize you can fall forever and never run out of stars.

Love Running Fall Losing
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The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

Abide Clay Earth Everywhere
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All the riches of the world are not of sufficient value to redeem one perishing soul.

Riches World Sufficient Value
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
Alone Courage Defend Freedom
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Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.

Devoted amusement Love pleasure
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I was one of the first veejays to take the camera out on location, and that's what was unique about MTV at that time.
About Camera First Location
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Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

Because Interest Just JustBecause
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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Behind Leave Lives Monuments
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I'm Jewish. I've always had a thing where it's okay to dance with the devil, just don't become the devil. Even at my peak, I never went too over the top.

Always Become Dance Devil
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We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

About Admit Ashamed Boast
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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

Alike Before Bravest Clearest
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I really don't go out every night to red-carpet events.
Events Every Go Night
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It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.

Disgrace Fail More New
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I don't think any of us would be who we are if our parents weren't who they were. People that are in show business, and their parents are not in show business, their parents probably motivated them to get in show business.

Any Business Get Motivated
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Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.

Action Capable Only People
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It's in my blood to tour. It's in my blood to get on the road. It's in my blood to go onstage.

Blood Get Go Onstage
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It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage.
Courage Endure Enemies Face
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All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it.

Accept Accepted Aim Burden
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Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

Been Certainly Dangerous Empire
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My 20s were a time where I made it; my 30s were when I was away, confused, and trying to figure it all out.

All-Out Away Confused Figure
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'Entourage' is a staple L.A.-based show, and people say it's pretty real, and I thought it was. It's an exaggeration of the truth.

Entourage Exaggeration People Pretty
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The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved.

About Best Control Everything
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You're surprised by something, but you don't really know what surprised you; you recognize someone, but you don't really know what cues cause you to recognize that person.

Cause Know Person Really
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We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.

Assumes Economic Future Idea
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The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

Decision Effort Getting Importance
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Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.

Life About Think Feelings
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We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.

Generally Impressions Judgments Opinions
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It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

Book Case Differently Read
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The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time.

Time Done Point Idea
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My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making - from raising the question of whether people know what they will want in the future and whether the things that people want for themselves will make them happy.

Decision Evolved Future Happy
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So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

Paying Attention About Thinking
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I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.

Estimate Fallible Satisfaction Experienced
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We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.

Automatic Control Doing Know
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Friends are sometimes a big help when they share your feelings. In the context of decisions, the friends who will serve you best are those who understand your feelings but are not overly impressed by them.

Overly Feelings Best Serve
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If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.

Choices Own Against Protect
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Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.

Know Fallible Highly Society
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It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.

Pattern Coherent Easier Little
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Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

Associations Different Emotions Evoke
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When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

Distinguish People Happiness Word
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One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.

Progress Sense Better Things
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When people talk of the economy being strong, they don't seem to feel that they, too, are better off.

Better Feel Seem Strong
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People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.

Secure Less Sense New
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The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.
Concept Happiness
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I'm into politics - I'm interested in the election and how pissed off people get.

Election Get How Interested
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All of us would be better investors if we just made fewer decisions.

Better Decisions Fewer Investors
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Serious and intense people, they drain you. But someone who's an idiot, like myself, they're fun. You either hate me or you love me.

Drain Either Fun Hate
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I would not advise people to buy a car or house without making a list. You will probably improve your intuitions by making a list and then sleeping on it.

List Improve Making House
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