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Normality is the new eccentric.

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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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A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.
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Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.
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Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.
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Part of God's work in his people is synchronizing the heart and the mind thus providing freedom from the deceit of emotion-based beliefs. Emotions are changing while truth is absolute. They don't believe simply because it sounds good, or deep, beautiful, happy, fun, cool, simple, or intelligent to them but because it's true.
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