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"There are a lot of things in life other than having sex, but none of them worth wasting a minute."
"Jesus never made miracles the center of His gospel."
"Do not waste time trying to deal with your enemies."
"Losing excess fats through exercise is important, but losing useless friends is urgent. Treat urgent things first!"
"When we overemphasise miracles we underplay kingdom principles."
"The only thing they valued higher than ammunition were Man United footballs."
"To put one's career before one's personal life is like putting death before life."
"It is better to focus on the mission than to earn money."
"If it isn't urgent, worry about it later."
"Do not pursue what you cannot keep."
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"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."
"Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism."
"Between the happening of a historical process and its recognition by rulers, a lag stretches, full of pitfalls."
"How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII."
"I will only mention that the independent power of words to affect the writing of history is a thing to be watched out for. They have an almost frightening autonomous power to produce in the mind of the reader an image or idea that was not in the mind of the writer. Obviously they operate this way in all forms of writing, but history is particularly sensitive because one has a duty to be accurate, and careless use of words can leave a false impression one had not intended."
"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
"The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost."
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