"I foresee a great funeral contest over me."

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Alexander the Great

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“We're taught to value ourselves not by the good we do but by the shoes we wear.”
“God does have a specific plan for our lives, but it is not one that He expects us to figure out before we make a decision.”
“There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.”
“In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called "Objections to Astrology" and asked me to endorse it. I struggled with his wording, and in the end found myself unable to sign, not because I thought astrology has any validity whatever, but because I felt (and still feel) that the tone of the statement was authoritarian.”
“All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.”
“The Holy Spirit is the source of spiritual unity! He is the Fount of all true joy! We as missionaries need the fullness of this joy. Without it our work will be a burden to us, and we shall toil on with the hearts of slaves; and the hearts of slaves are never strong.”
“The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.”
“the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners”

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