We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity. ~David Lloyd Jones
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I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says. ~Dick Cheney
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Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score. ~Frank Leahy
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Under the shadow of swords, any plan is good. ~Mehmet Murat Ildan
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First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind. ~Francis Bacon
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The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people; not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene. ~Dierks Bentley
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Proverbs are the literature of reason. ~French Proverb
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If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought. ~Dallas Willard
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The maxims of men disclose their hearts. ~French Proverb
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True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety. ~Rajneesh
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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Where there is sunshine the doctor starves. ~Flemish Proverb
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
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Earth to Democrats; displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a good political move. ~Monica Crowley
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The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy. ~Missy Franklin
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots. ~Derek Jeter
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While aromatherapy is practiced by medical doctors in France, this has not been the case in England and the United States. ~Robert Tisserand
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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