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Everyone has special talents, and it is our duty to find ours and use them well.

John Templeton

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John Templeton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1912
Born: November 29
Died: 2008
Died: July 8
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
Investor
Merchant
Winchester
Tennessee
John Marks Templeton
Sir John Marks Templeton
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High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life.
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The opposite of humility is arrogance--the belief that we are wiser or better than others. Arrogance promotes separation rather than community. It looms like a brick wall between us and those from whom we could learn.
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If you're not grateful, you're not rich - no matter how much you have.
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Humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.
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Basic reality seems to be that the more you try to be like God by radiating unlimited love, the more you become flooded by waves of love from others and from God.
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You must be a fundamentalist to be really successful in the market.
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Kindness comes back like a boomerang to those who are kind. Perhaps, its return takes years. Perhaps, the kindness returns from a different direction than that which we sent out kindness. But it will return. It is never lost.
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If a business is not ethical, it will fail, perhaps not right away but eventually.
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The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God?
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Thanksgiving being thankful or grateful results in more to be thankful for.
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Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialists overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.
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Hate, like prayer, changes the person involved in the activity, not the person the activity is aimed at.
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If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.
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Each of us has a purpose for living beyond our own survival and pleasure. Every individual is like a thread in a beautiful tapestry with a vital contribution to make, not only to the sustenance of life as we know it, but in the creation and development of more beneficial expressions of life.
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