"People could achieve much more if only they would put in more effort. You must take responsibility for your own life. Be conscious of how you use your time! Be conscious of how you listen! Be conscious of how you manage all of your affairs, so that God can look upon you and be well pleased. Seek God's honor in everything you do."

-- Johan Oscar Smith

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“You could start a small fire... with [photo] books I hate, and use that light to look at mine.”
“Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.”

Source : Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.198, Algonquin Books
“Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.”
“Everybody should be lucky enough to live as long as I have and be happy.”
“Stop thinking that other people are going to come and save you. You gotta save yourself.”
“All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.”
“Lyndon Johnson wanted to emancipate the whites as much as people of color, because he knew how, particularly in the South, but not only in the South, we were so restricted. And he wanted everybody to live up to the best that God gave them and use those tools of education and have good health care, to be able to do the things to make America great.”
“Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.”

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