"The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness."

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"The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness."

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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."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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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."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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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."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction."

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"For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty."

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"Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego."

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"Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two."

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"Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world."

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"It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong."

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"Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house."

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"All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life."

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