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When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.

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Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever
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Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.
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If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields.
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Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of.
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You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.
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The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.
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I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?
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The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.
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The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.
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It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.
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One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.
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As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.
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One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.
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If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be.
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Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.
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You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone.
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One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.
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My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.
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Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.
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What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted.
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