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I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

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Taylor Caldwell
Age: 84 †
Born: 1900
Born: September 7
Died: 1985
Died: August 30
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Manchester
England
Marcus Holland
Max Reiner
Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell
Janet Miriam Reback
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Make
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I shudder at the very thought of being born again into this world. Life to me . . . has been a monstrous, painful, agonizing affair, and the idea of repeating such an existence - even if better in a way - is horrifying to me. . . . I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.
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Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.
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The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
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One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.
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Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.
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I am the skeptic of skeptics.
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Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.
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At 8, I made a pact with God.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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Saints rarely have friends they are usually hated and derided, for they love and love is always rejected by hard-hearted men....saints do not advertise themselves good men do not seek out a name in the world....the saints did what they did almost in stealth, asking nothing except that men love God.
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Animals do not betray they do not exploit they do not oppress they do not enslave they do not sin. They have their being, and their being is honest, and who can say this of man?
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