"Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time."

Life, Time, First, Right

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"Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time."

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"It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly."

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"Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time."

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"Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary."

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"And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own."

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"Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation."

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"I learned the value of hard work by working hard."

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"We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet."

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"Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women."

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"The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today."

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"Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man."

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"Will a loving God send a man to hell? The answer from Jesus and His teachings of the Bible is, clearly, “Yes!” He does not send man willingly, but man condemns himself to eternal hell because . . .he refuses God's way of salvation and the hope of eternal life with Him."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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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."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Things past redress are now with me past care."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Some parts of life are lived in the shadows where the only sunlight you feel is the light you pray for."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Hate is hostility."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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