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"The petty man wants to use God for himself, the ambitious man wants God to use him for God."
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"It is how hard you want, what you want that gets it."

"If size does matter, then dream-n-do big!"

"If you water your dreams with excellence, success will grow."

"Making your mark in the world is better than making trouble."

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."

"Your problem is in thinking the sky's the limit. Why set limits?"

"Life is full of limitless opportunities. You ought to seek them."

"The desire of most people on earth is to make money and money seems to be the greatest motivation in life for a lot of people."

"Having this, we want that.Owning some, we want more.Standing here, we wish to be there.If it's impossible, we struggle to make it happen.Why are we like this? Why not be content with some, here, and now? Why is enough not enough? Because humans are ambitious creatures not meant to be idle or fruitless. We strive to learn, to grow, to achieve, to amass; therefore, we will never be content."
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"I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one."

"Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank."

"Excuses will become self-refuting. No man who does not believe that Jesus is the perfect, sinless Son of God can, in his desperation and love for sin, reasonably use and misconstrue Jesus' words that unless a Christian is perfect, then that Christian cannot judge sin. Otherwise this non-believer is unconsciously entertaining a belief that Jesus, unlike any other man to ever live, was indeed perfect and sinless in His judgments and therefore that Christian is supposed to be like Him."

"God is so omnipotent yet man so impotent, the Divine masterpiece was not even in creating the universe, but in making sin boring to sinners."

"Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone."

"I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American."

"We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in."
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