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“It is one thing to have sin alarmed only by convictions, and another to have it crucified by converting grace. Many, because they have been troubled in conscience for their sins, think well of their case, miserably mistaking conviction for conversion.”
Source : Joseph Alleine (1824). “An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners”, p.97
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“I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.”
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“If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.”
Source : "DropBox CEO Drew Houston Explains How To Become A Leader Quickly" by Max Nisen, www.businessinsider.com. December 6, 2013.
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“I could have an office all to myself but since my collaborators don’t have one, then I too am contented to have a desk in a shared room.”
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“No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.”
Source : J. Frank Dobie, John D. Young (1998). “A Vaquero of the Brush Country: The Life and Times of John D. Young”, p.99, University of Texas Press
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“Compassion is an essential element of love.”
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“In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression from time to time, but we regularly kill what we love in insidious fashion.”
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“The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.”