"There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work."

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"There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work."

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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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"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."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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"I am born to win."

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