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“But God caused knowledge to be given to Adam and those with him, so that the kings of chaos and the underworld might not lord it over them." [--Jesus]”
“To be laughed at draws more profitable attention than being smiled at”
“Fortune draws her breath through cracks that make coarse the route on which we march to success”
“You lose nothing if by losing a friend you win countless admirers”
“It is through aversion to hardship that great ideas are born, but it is only through acceptance of it that these ideas can be implemented”
“The choice is ours to make whether the stars in the night sky shine upon us as headlights of an approaching paradise or as tail-lights of receding fortunes”
“Success dwells in a neighbourhood that can only be explored through failure, and it is through perfect knowledge of that neighbourhood that we gain perfect knowledge of her address”
“The experience of the expert is an advantage to them only for as long as it enables them to learn faster than the novice”
“The fortune that you feel you don't deserve is heaven's compensation for the misfortunes she feels you didn't deserve”
“There are three houses that the ultimate adult must leave: their parents' house, their employer's house, and their teacher's house. So they must someday found their own home, their own business, an...”
“Depending on someone to make for you money is quite like depending on them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby”
“Asking someone to make for you money is like asking them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby”
“The quality of a man is to be judged not by what he drives but by what drives him”
“Faith is not mere belief but is that state you attain when you send your will, words, thoughts, beliefs, and actions into orbit around a chosen goal”
“The rich don't know when they will die, but the world's poor don't know when they will live”
“To the aimless man all men are equal, but to him with purpose some men are seed and others weed”
“...the great experiences which form him, arise out of the discontinuity and disharmony between man and the world. Particularly in great personalities, we see how much of their beauty and excellence...”
“If we are called to attention by Gods Life and Holy Spirit, then the spiritual life is not a pleasant option we might like to pursue when we have space and time; it is that which is now creating it...”
“We are often more a piece of work than a work of art.”
“To love one another as He loves us, is the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. For it is love that kills our outward mans ways; buries him in baptism; and causes our inward-man (named Jesus) to resurrect ...”
