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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
Bruce Barton
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Bruce Barton
Age: 80 †
Born: 1886
Born: January 1
Died: 1967
Died: January 1
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If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.
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Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.
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Jesus brought forth men's greatest efforts by the promise of obstacles not rewards.
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The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority.
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Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
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A man may be down, but he is never out.
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If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.
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When you are through changing, you are through.
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