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"For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"How magical can a person be when she is blessed with infinite kindness?"
"How many homes are broken because of men and women who are unfaithful! God will not hold you guiltless! There is a day of reckoning. “Be sure your sin will find you out” (Numbers 32:23 ESV). They will find you out in your own family life here in your relationship with your mate, they will find you out in the life to come."
"People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs."
"Life and death is not a do-it-yourself project."
"No matter how much you exercise, no matter how many vitamins or health foods you eat, no matter how low your cholesterol, you will still die-someday. If you knew the moment and manner of your death in advance, would you order your life differently?"
"The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a man and a women, staring straight ahead, not talking. It was, finally, for everyone, a matter of waiting. You waited and you waited- for the hospital, the doctor, the plumber, the madhouse, the jail, papa death himself. First the signal red, then the signal was green. The citizens of the world ate food and watched t.v. and worried about their jobs or lack of the same, while they waited."
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"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings."
"Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land."
"Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought."
"He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience."
"The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman."
"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."
"Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors."
"These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle."
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