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To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

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Let your confidence reflect your contentedness.
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I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.
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Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.
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It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.
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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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The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.
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Genius - the pursuit of madness.
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The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.
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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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When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.
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I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.
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God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.
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When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.
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To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.
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If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.
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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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Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else it is to say that that person is superior in some sense.
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Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.
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All the good stuff has already been said by someone somewhere at some point in time. You just have to find it. Today, communication pretty much comes down to understanding - saying what you have to say clearly and effectively...and then living it.
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I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.
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