"Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying."

Life, Dying, Living

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"Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying."

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"Will a loving God send a man to hell? The answer from Jesus and His teachings of the Bible is, clearly, “Yes!” He does not send man willingly, but man condemns himself to eternal hell because . . .he refuses God's way of salvation and the hope of eternal life with Him."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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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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"There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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

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"Things past redress are now with me past care."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Some parts of life are lived in the shadows where the only sunlight you feel is the light you pray for."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Hate is hostility."

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"Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style."

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"Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority."

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"All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them."

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"When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior."

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"If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat."

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"The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women."

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"Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself."

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"The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them."

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