"Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others."

-- Saint Augustine

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“I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.”

Source : "Jacques Barzun '27: Columbia Avatar". Columbia Today, January 2006.
“A salesman, like the storage battery in your car, is constantly discharging energy. Unless he is recharged at frequent intervals he soon runs dry. This is one of the greatest responsibilities of sales leadership.”
“If you want to be happy in life, keep all of your commitments and don't expect other people to keep any of theirs.”
“Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.”
“Love is God, and the one that believes in love, believes in God.”
“Let us face at the outset how many Christians are not victorious, but defeated. Defeated by circumstances, defeated by other peoples? natures and wrong-doings, defeated by the down-drag of the flesh, defeated by loss, by pain, by suffering, by worry. Instead of saying with confidence, ?This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith?, they have to say in honesty, ?This is the defeat that has been caused by the world, even our self-centeredness.? That is the opposite of faith. Unbelief is not the opposite of faith; self-centeredness is ? being centered in self rather than in God.”
“The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you love will be yours for ever. Since it is by giving alms that everything is pure for you, you will also receive that blessing which is promised next by the Lord: the Godhead that no man has been able to see. In the inexpressible joy of this eternal vision, human nature will possess what eye has not seen or ear heard, what man's heart has never conceived.”
“Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.”

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