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Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

Appearance Attitude Circumstances Education
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I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

Handful Face Friends Heart
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The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

Excellence Free Information Kind
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The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

Compromise Devastating Lot Misfortune
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When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

Ability Vision Beyond Majority
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There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

Average Person Fearful Group
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I am often the brunt of my own humor.

Brunt Humor Often Own
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I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.

Attention Audience Begin Important
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We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never.

Address Church Crowd Focus
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I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.

Against Christ Glorify Innovation
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It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.

Away Believe Christ Christians
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If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

Big Big Company Company Humor
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Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

Born Learned Prejudice Trait
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Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

Business Commitment Entrepreneurs Fear
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There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of worship of the true and living God.

Comedians God Living Plenty
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When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.

Around Budget Church Media
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When you are giving people the gospel, you are giving them something to believe, and you have to set the stage for that. You don't just drive up and dump the truck and drive off.

Believe Drive Dump Giving
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Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures - they're lying if they say they haven't. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind - the product wasn't distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

Businesses Businessman Coca-Cola Distinct
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If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all the other stuff that gets you sidetracked; preach the Word.

Preach Rid Sidetracked Stuff
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I think it's good for a woman to put on a bit of weight when she gets older - it looks better. But a man has to stay balanced.

Balanced Better Bit Gets
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You should not build your customer service system on the premise that your organisation will never question the whims of your clients.

Build Clients Customer Customer Service
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I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.

Authenticity Being Simply Know
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Because God gave you your makeup and superintended every moment of your past, including all the hardship, pain, and struggles, He wants to use your words in a unique manner. No one else can speak through your vocal cords, and, equally important, no one else has your story.

Cords Else Equally God
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It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.

Exciting Friendship God Grows
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Sometimes I wake up before dawn, and I love sitting up in the middle of the bed with all the lights off, pitch-black dark, and talking to the Father, with no interruptions and nothing that reminds me that there's anything in life but me and Him.

Life Lights Love Middle
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When you have a sense of calling, whether it's to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn't just a casual choice, it's a divine calling. It's not limited to vocational Christian service by any means.

Artist Calling Casual Choice
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One of the worst things you can give to your people is someone you're not.

People Someone Things Worst
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I'm here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.

Adversary Attention Entitlement Gain
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Material things are delightful, but they're not important.

Delightful Important Material Material Things
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The world has changed and it's going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him.

Changed Cling God Keep
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When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.

Across Around Chance Come
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None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

High Judgments None Opinion
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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Around Half Lie Shoes
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A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Best Carve Good Hearts
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Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Wise Deal Fool Great
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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Easy Evil Generally Little
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The true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.

Burger Buy Cost Far
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Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Beware Carry Enemies Man
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More businesses should be following Apple's stance in encouraging more investment in sustainability.

Apple Businesses Encouraging Following
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From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people's lives better.

Better Business Day Entrepreneur
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Those who know me know I'm passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

About Children Consider Fame
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

Almost Been Bull Cow
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Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

Accessible Basically Goal Information
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Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

Value Hypocrite Person Least
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I can't really comment on rumors.
Comment Really Rumors
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No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Appearance Miserable Person Poor
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

Politics Turn Will You
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

Always Basically Engine Everything
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The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

Affliction Best Lord Gets
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Followers Function Leaders Leadership
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