"I want to block some common misunderstandings about understanding: In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word understanding."

-- John Searle

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“ObamaCare is not a 'trainwreck,' it is a suicide attack. He wants to hurt us, to bring us to our knees, to capitulate, so we agree under duress to accept big government.”
“Church membership was so important that Paul and Silas baptized the Philippian jailer into the membership of Christ's church at midnight with Paul's back still bloody from a beating! He did not even wait till morning! Identification with Christ's church is important; without it, one must be treated 'as a heathen and publican.'”
“By developing balance in your life, you will increase your energy, motivation, and your sense of satisfaction. In short, your happiness. Most people are as happy as they choose to be. May you choose to be very happy in 1998! SUCCESS to You . . .”
“It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such rules and principles, there will be numberless occasions on which you will have no guide for your government but your passions..It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from the Bible how to practice them.”
“The talents of an artist, small or large, are God-given... They are a sacred trust.”
“Kids do have to learn that life is a humiliating charade of endless disappointment and tragedy ultimately culminating in pain, decay, and death. My parents used to sing me to sleep with that one.”
“Iâ€™m more comfortable with myself than when I was younger. I hated myself then. Wait, I didnâ€™t hate myself â€“ thatâ€™s a strong word. But I was so diffident. I didnâ€™t know how to act, for one. I had no confidence in that area or in myself at all, really. I had a big inner critic and still do. I just donâ€™t listen to it so much.”
“When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.”

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