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“The men with God's 'go' in them have these three characteristics-a saving experience, the evidence of supernatural power at work, and the spiritual efficacy of success in prayer.”
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“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
Source : Jane Austen, Terry Glaspey (2015). “The Prayers of Jane Austen”, p.75, Harvest House Publishers
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“True solace is finding none, which is to say, it is everywhere.”
Source : Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA
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“A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him.”
Source : Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”
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“The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein.”
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“In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.”
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“The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort but, with all the forces of gravity against it, a fleeting poise in mid-air, a lovely attitude worthy to be made immortal in a bas-relief, it was lost as soon as it was gained and there remained no more than the memory of an exquisite emotion. So life, lived variously and largely, becomes a work of art only when brought to its beautiful conclusion and is reduced to nothingness in the moment when it arrives at perfection.”
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“The mode of reconciling the promise of ever-increasing reward for the cadres and the demands of the working classes for a quid pro quo for their loyalty to the state was to offer the latter a small piece of the pie.”