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"I never have been involved in politics."
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"People are going to break promises, and they will have every right to till the point you realize that you don't change plans based on someone else's words."
"The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians."
"Just because you have a past with someone, doesn't mean you should have a future with them."
"If they weren't good for you in 2015, they won't be great for you in 2016. Let them go."
"Having less worries is what allows me to talk to beggars in the street or tell jokes at waitresses and try to make them smile. I couldn't do that before, when I had a job and was always worried about money."
"It must be frustrating to survive the gauntlet that is our western medical schooling system only to one day come to the realization that you have been taught only to manage illness and disease instead of curing it."
"Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter. Sit still with me and meditate on how useless effort is, how alien the will, and on how our very meditation is no more useful than effort, and no more our own than the will. Meditate too on how a life that wants nothing can have no weight in the flux of things, but a life the wants everything can likewise have no weight in the flux of things, since it cannot obtain everything, and to obtain less than everything is not worthy of souls that seek the truth."
"Sometimes the best solution is to stop trying to change people."
"I don't need to look at your primal, white-hot, mutant pirate eyes, big guy. Just forget that I'm there, and I'll try to block out the fact that I ever met you. Basically we'll just act like we do every day."
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"God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'"
"During the next 90 days, people are going to be more open to the Gospel than in years. It is God's responsibility to make people receptive; it is our responsibility to sow the seed."
"Every time you try to block a thought out of your mind, you drive it deeper into your memory. By resisting it, you actually reinforce it."
"Gossip is passing on information when you are neither part of the problem nor part of the solution."
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