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"A MOTTO OF THE HUMAN RACE: Tell me what to do, but it must be what I want you to tell me."
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"I am not what you are. I am only what I can see. I am me."

"Your eyes have no power to see. They only create optical illusions. Only the mind can see it when it is ready to see it."

"Lack of money is no poverty."

"Ancient historians tell us that one of the symptoms of a declining civilization is a desexualization of the human race, with men becoming more effeminate and women becoming more masculine, not only in physical [appearance] but in their basic characters."

"Parenting is the most important responsibility most of us will ever face, and none of us does it perfectly."

"To injure, ignore, disrespect, and violate the innocence of a child are among the greatest evils known to man."

"I don't care if you love me or not, but I care that I love you without any thought."

"The evangelist cannot bring conviction of sin, righteousness, or judgment; that is the Spirit's work. They cannot convert anyone; that is the Spirit's work."

"Christianity is not a spectator sport, it's something in which we become totally involved."

"In the face of legalized pornography, the conscience of America seems to be paralyzed. More serious than our fakery in art, literature, and pictures is the collapse of our moral standards and the blunting of our capacity as a nation for righteous indignation."
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"Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion."


"Three things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity. Ali, the Lion of Islam."


"If you forsake a path, it is because you were hoping for conviction from it. You seek conviction, not self-knowledge."


"It is not 'Have I got a chance?' It is more often: 'Have I seen my chance?"


"Causes: As important a fact as any individual cause on earth is the vital incapacity of the human individual to distinguish between genuine cause and one which is foisted upon him by pressure, environment, propaganda, conditioning.If people had the sense they pretend to have, they would seek this fundamental distinction perceptible.Hardly anyone makes this effort. This is partly because it is an invisible but powerful part of their culture to teach that conditioned emotionality and 'causes' whose necessity, urgency or rightness is only conditioned into them, are necessarily, right."
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