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Your enemies, your critics, the people that are trying to push you down-God can use them to push you up.
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The notion of a conscious model of oneself as an individual entity actively trying to establish epistemic relations to the world and to oneself, I think, comes very close to what we traditionally mean by notions like "subjectivity".
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Faith is rest, not toil. It is the giving up all the former weary efforts to do or feel something good, in order to induce God to love and pardon; and the calm reception of the truth so long rejected, that God is not waiting for any such inducements, but loves and pardons of His own goodwill, and is showing that goodwill to any sinner who will come to Him on such a footing, casting away his own performances or goodnesses, and relying implicitly upon the free love of Him who so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son.
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I think every year you're in the NFL you probably lose three or five years off your lifespan.
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When your sense of worth exceeds your conditions, conditions will shift to match your vision.
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Actually, I never liked Dylan's kind of music before; I always thought he sounded just like Yogi Bear.
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My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.
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Changing schools and friends is hard on children and can often make them desperate and lonely enough to form closer ties with a sibling.
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I believe that if you have good organizational skills, then creativity can come out of that, but it's hard to be really creative when everything is a mess. And in a restaurant, organizational skills are imperative.
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If you would know what a cat is thinking about, you must hold its paw in your hand for a long time...
