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Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

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A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth.
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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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When it comes to judging individuals, I do not like remarks such as 'too good to be true.' They speak as though one is rewarding the nature of evil. Yet, ironically, we still wonder where all the good people have gone.
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Everyone has a natural slant towards seeking themselves. This gets in the way of seeking God unless God intervenes.
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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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The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.
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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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Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.
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Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.
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The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.
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Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.
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To ask, 'How do you do it?' is already starting off on the wrong foot. When reaching for the stars, there does not have to be a 'how' if there is a big enough 'why'.
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People think that fun in Christ is non-existent, but there is fun wherever your heart lives.
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I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.
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If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.
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I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.
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Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.
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When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.
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Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil.
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When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.
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