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This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.
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Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.
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All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here
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She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.
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Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire.
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Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.
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What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?
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Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.
