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''God is Love,'' we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.
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... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
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A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
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A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
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A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
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A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement - in a word, with more renunciation than you care for - and so you flee the contagion.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
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Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
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Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
Bernard M. Baruch
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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
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Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
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Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
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