"For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying."

Life, Work

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"For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying."

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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."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"I am born to win."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

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"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

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"There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be."

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"What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better."

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"A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer."

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"Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing."

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"There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best."

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"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion."

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"Pearls mean tears."

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"Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so."

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