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    “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.

    (John 11:25-26)”
    ― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
    tags: belief, charles-dickens, ever-after, everlasting-life, faith, paradise, resurrection, sydney-carton, tale-of-two-cities
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    “No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come”
    ― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita
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    “God accepts only the love with which things are offered to Him.”
    ― Anonymous, Bhagavad-gita As It Is
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    “If you limit your choice only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.”
    ― Robert Fritz, The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life
    tags: choice, potential
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  • #5
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be great is to be misunderstood.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays
    tags: greatness
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “People only see what they are prepared to see.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • #7
    “People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.”
    ― Robert J. Ringer
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  • #8
    Jack D. Schwager
    “Actually, the best traders have no ego.”
    ― Jack D. Schwager, Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders
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  • #9
    Thomas Merton
    “The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.”
    ― Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain
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    Thomas Merton
    “But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.”
    ― Thomas Merton
    tags: comfort, enquiry, silence, solitude
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    Thomas Sowell
    “When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
    ― Thomas Sowell
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    Thomas Sowell
    “It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.”
    ― Thomas Sowell, Knowledge and Decisions
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    Thomas Sowell
    “One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.”
    ― Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
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    Thomas Sowell
    “If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.”
    ― Thomas Sowell, Knowledge and Decisions
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    Thomas Sowell
    “We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.”
    ― Thomas Sowell
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    Thomas Sowell
    “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
    ― Thomas Sowell
    tags: economics, politics
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    Thomas Sowell
    “Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.”
    ― Thomas Sowell
    tags: help, helping, liberal, liberalism, life, people, political, politics, solutions
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    Thomas Sowell
    “The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.”
    ― Thomas Sowell
    tags: freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, socialism, state, statism, tyranny, voluntaryism
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    Thomas Sowell
    “What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.”
    ― Thomas Sowell
    tags: aggression, anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, capitalism, censorship, coercion, freedom, just, justice, knowledge, laissez-faire, laws, libertarian, liberty, non-aggression-principle, politics, society, statism, voluntaryism
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  • #20
    “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34”
    ― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
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  • #21
    “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
    ― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
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  • #22
    “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you

    [Matthew 7:1-2]”
    ― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
    tags: bible-verse, judge, judgemental, scripture
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  • #23
    “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
    ― Anonymous, Holy Bible: The New King James Version
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  • #24
    “To those whom much is given, much is expected.”
    ― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
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  • #25
    “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”
    ― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
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  • #26
    “I am the way the way the truth and the life, no one comes to the father but through me”
    ― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
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  • #27
    “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
    ― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
    tags: bible, creation, god, science, scripture, truth
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  • #28
    “Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

    (Jesus, in Mark 11:24)”
    ― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
    tags: christianity, religious
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  • #29
    “A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked.”
    ― Psalm 91
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  • #30
    Malcolm Gladwell
    “The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.”
    ― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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