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"Bottom line? As much as youwanted someone to change and believed they could, they were in control of their life. Not you. And you could throw yourself against the wall of their choices until you were black-and-blue and dizzy as hell, but unless they decided to take a different road, the outcome wasn't going to be what you wanted."
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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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"The truth was...he was in love with her. Totally over-the-line, no-going-back, not-even-dead-would-he-part kind of shit."

"Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof."

"God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days."

"They massacred the servants before killing my parents. I saw it all through a knothole in the wood. As I said, my eyes were better back then."

"Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful."

"Okay, well...how's that water feeling, then?' 'Excuse me?' 'The Nile warm this time of the year?"

"He had been aware of the distance traveled by his heart, similar to the way a hiker became lost in the wilderness. A half mile out and you could still see where you had started, could easily find the way back home. But ten miles and a number of forks in your trail later and there was no going back. At that point, you had no choice but to marshal the resources to build yourself a shelter and put down fresh roots."
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