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"The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened."
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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."

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

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

"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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

"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."
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"Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres."

"Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more."

"The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them."

"No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve."

"He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it."

"You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed."

"The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened."
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