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"Eric understands that the world is rarely the way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ourselves."
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"Any church that is overly emphasizing the role of miracles is encouraging his members to be indolent."
"Personal Responsibility is when a person sees a problem and refuses to be indifferent, but decides to rather look for ways and means of resolving the problem."
"When you blame others you are effectively proclaiming that you are only response to stimuli."
"When you spent your time, you are actually spending your life."
"When we are telling people to depend on favor rather than qualification, we are actually preparing a ground for our country to collapse."
"It is your life, accept the responsibility."
"Stop blaming people for not helping you. No matter how your teacher teaches you to recite a poem, you can't wear her smiling face to the platform. You've got to put that smile on your own face."
"We are the author of our own destruction."
"We turn our attention to the government and we whine about the incompetence of the police, we also complain about the breakdown in law and order. Yet, we forget that we actually had a role to play in the consequences we are reaping."
"The time is coming when each of us will have to give an account of our stewardship."
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"McAfee, I could try this case in my sleep and still win.""Guess that's your plan, then, since you're clearly dreaming."
"We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which."
"Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother?Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life."
"I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me better than I knew myself, and He had done what nothing else could do. By bringing us together, He had set into motion the one thing that could tear us apart."
"At that moment, Oliver realized that home is not a place, but rather, the people who love you."
"Goldfish get big enough only for the bowl you put them in. Bonsai trees twist in miniature. I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them."
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