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"When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville."
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"Adapt yourself to the needs of the people."
"Admittedly, there will be times when you must interact on a superficial level and adjust your behavior to fit in, go along and get along."
"The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton."
"Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules."
"If you don't stay relevant you will be relegated."
"The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland.The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides.The grandparent will move the flowerbox halfway out of the sun.The child will turn it around properly so that the fern is in the shade, and not the cactus.The moral of the story?Kids are smart."
"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them."
"THE SEASONS REMIND ME THAT I MUST KEEP CHANGING."
"They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy."
"If you accept the situation, you will find strength for strategic adaptation."
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"Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look."
"The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location."
"You may ask, why not simply call this literature Christian? Unfortunately, the word Christian is no longer reliable. It has come to mean anyone with a golden heart. And a golden heart would be a positive interference in the writing of fiction."
"The isolated imagination is easily corrupted by theory, but the writer inside his community seldom has such a problem."
"Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them."
"Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."
"Meeks was telling him about the value of work. He said that it had been his personal experience that if you wanted to get ahead, you had to work. He said this was the law of life and it was no way to get around it because it was inscribed on the human heart like love thy neighbour. He said these two laws were the team that worked together to make the world go round and that any individual who wanted to be a success and win the pursuit of happiness, that was all he needed to know."
"There won't be any biographies of me, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken farm do not make for exciting copy."
"He felt he knew now what time would be like without seasons and what heat would be like without light and what man would be like without salvation. He didn't care if he never made the train and if it had not been for what suddenly caught his attention, like a cry out of the gathering dusk, he might have forgotten there was a station to go to."
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