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“Consider this: there is not a single word in [the Sermon on the Mount] about what to believe, only words about what to do. It is a behavioral manifesto, not a propositional one. Yet three centuries later, when the Nicene Creed became the official oath of Christendom, there was not a single word in it about what to do, only words about what to believe!”
Source : Robin R. Meyers (2009). “Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus”, p.14, Harper Collins
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“When you're in a commodity business, the only way to thrive is to be a low-cost producer. And when you're selling money, you're in a commodity business.”
Source : Duff McDonald (2009). “Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase”, p.151, Simon and Schuster
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“Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive."”
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“This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.”
Source : Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.37, Macmillan
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“I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.”
Source : Vera Brittain (2008). “Because You Died: Poetry and Prose of the First World War and After”, Virago Press
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“Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.”
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“The libertarian creed...offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better future. Libertarians are squarely in the great classical liberal tradition that built the United States and bestowed on us the American heritage of individual liberty, a peaceful foreign policy, minimal government, and a free-market economy.”
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“The Poet, gentle creature as he is, Hath, like the Lover, his unruly times; His fits when he is neither sick nor well, Though no distress be near him but his own Unmanageable thoughts.”