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"Failure exists. Yes! Failure exists. Don't expect to meet all your expectations in life; however, expect to do everything you must do to realize your expectations and success. These two things success and failure have in common; they both responds to uncertainty and they are triggered by action."
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Personal Development

"Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will."
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Personal Development

"A great paradox which should God make us understand, we will weep, laugh, wonder and ponder is the paradox of human ignorance."
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Personal Development

"God has a will for your city, country, neighboring countries, and the whole world."
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Personal Development

"Your life goal and mission is to find your gift, become what you have been created to be and with your gift serve mankind, promoting advancement and influencing humanity."
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Personal Development

"Nothing can squelch your fire except turning your back on the thing that fuels it."
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Personal Development

"One cannot help feeling that some alternative occupation-lettuce farming, say-would offer somewhat less of a risk of being put to death by installments. Why do you persist in it?Goldeneyes Dactylos shrugged."I'm good at it, he said."
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Personal Development

"Identifying the purpose of your living is more important than creating a family and having children."
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Personal Development

"It is easy to know your purpose in life, because you choose your purpose in life."
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Personal Development

"The purpose of your life is to find your ultimate purpose that makes you happy. Then commit to it wholeheartedly."
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"We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews."
Money

"It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud."
Love

"When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny."
Fun

"You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space."
Space

"Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?"
Fun

"In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it."
People

"Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question."
Purpose

"One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that."
People

"But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake."
Question

"I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot."
Fiction
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