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Arnold J. Toynbee

"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it."

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"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it."

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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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"The Bible teaches that whether we are saved or lost, there is conscious and everlasting existence of the soul and personality."

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"I find beauty in every sacred moment."

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"Life and death is not a do-it-yourself project."

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"No matter how much you exercise, no matter how many vitamins or health foods you eat, no matter how low your cholesterol, you will still die-someday. If you knew the moment and manner of your death in advance, would you order your life differently?"

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"If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land."

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"Life becomes difficult when out of sync with your heart-felt desires."

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"Can the sin of one or a few cause suffering for many? The answer, of course, is yes, for no sin is isolated in the life of the sinner. It spreads like poison gas into every available crevice."

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"By walking on the right path, you create a golden fate for yourself and you also become a silver lining for the others!"

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"The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I."

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