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Holding onto broken hearts
memories are what’s left of us
you’re trying too hard to be my friend
& i’m placing all our pictures in
these broken frames to remind
me never to fall in love again

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Time stands still when no one understands
you and you don’t quite understand yourself.
Today didn’t have to be this way, tomorrow
is another day, another chance to make
things right..

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To hell with my pride.
tonight i want to cry.

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It’s completely impossible to find a guy
who won’t ever hurt you,
so go for the guy who will
make the pain worthwhile

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&& I don’t understand by the way you look at me why we can’t be together.

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I just want a different ending to our same old story. Let’s try & make it last this time & prove them all wrong.

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& I think that I’m impressed with your one night stands & your contagious kiss. I’m trying to get this right. Yeah. Cause I’m rediculous like that.

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She closes her eyes, as make-up runs down her face,
He got the best of her.

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& Lately, she’d say anything to make him turn his head.
anything just to make him laugh & just stare at her.

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I’ll be your cheap novelty.

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I regret every word I said to make him feel special.

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Go ahead. Kiss her.
I hope she bites your lip
And you choke on the blood.

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after a while;;
you’d think we’d
eventually learn.

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note to self -
first to last.

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sleep is overrated
we stay awake and cry
if this is love, than kill me now
and save me from my life

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even if you & her are together, I guess that won’t change us right?
We’ll still be friends, We’ll still laugh together..
We’ll still smile at each other are friendship will still be there,
& we’ll be ok..won’t we?

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Isn`t if funny how day-by-day
nothing changes, but then when
you look back, everything is different

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my heart is that crack in the
s i d e w a l k, that you walk on everyday.

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falling for him once: temptation
falling for him twice: destiny
getting your heart broken: a mistake
letting it happen again: unstoppable

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& this mood of mine is only temporary,
just like your feelings.

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love doesn`t need a reason;
if you can explain why you love someone, it`s not love, it`s like.

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i don`t wanna do this anymore
i don`t wanna be the reason why
everytime i walk out the door
i see him die a little more inside
i don`t wanna hurt him anymore
i don`t wanna take away his life
i don`t wanna be a murderer

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The truth may hurt me,
but your lies kill me.

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love is like dominoes,
one wrong move & everything
you`ve worked for falls apart.

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she’s just another girl believing
in something that will never happen.

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I must be a pretty good liar
for you to honestly think
that everything’s alright.

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Girls are like telephones
they like to be held and talked to
but push the wrong button and you’ll be
disconnected.

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sometimes i feel like the last cookie in the jar;
all alone & broken.

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someone said your name & asked me if i knew you.
i looked down, wiped away my tears, & said,
“no, not anymore.”

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my knight in shining armor turned out to be just a stupid boy in tin foil.

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love is like heaven but hurts like hell!

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Behind every bitch theres a man
that made her that way.

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I’m starting to learn from
relationships in the past,
lifes a bunch of bull sh*t
and promises never last!

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A heart is not a play think,
A heart is not a toy.
But if you want it broken
Give it to a boy!

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don’t break my heart; all i’ll do is lose the pieces

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i keep playing the same song over and over
because all it reminds me is of you
& how special you made me feel

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you said we’d be together forever.
only thing is, forever aint over yet.

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sometimes, when i say “oh, im fine”
i want you to look into my eyes
&& say “tell the truth”

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& she will fool everyone
with her fake smile and pretend laugh

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who never forever already ended
sometimes in order to not fall apart,
you have to let go of what keeps you together.

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& you can’t leave me if i’m already gone

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&&. once you realize what you had was good, ill be long gone

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As i wait here in the silence i hear my steady heart beat.
I dont see why u cant be with me.but its the way it has to be.

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I told myself I wouldnt cry, but I am still asking God why.

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Yes it hurts, though it goes to show, that God only takes the best.

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dear heart,
today i met a boy; prepare to shatter

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don’t tell me you love me if you don’t really mean it
because i might do something crazy, like believe it

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damn right; he’s better than my ex!

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i don’t want to hear who my ex is dating
i’ll feel sorry for the girl who got my sloppy seconds.

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i don’t make mistakes, i just date them.

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the worst thing you could do is make me fall for you
with no intentions to catch me

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it’s hard to let someone in when everytime you did;
your heart was left in a million pieces

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don’t ever make someone your everything
because if you lose them, you’ll have nothing.

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she completely fell for him : but he didn’t even stumble

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love starts with a smile
grows with a kiss
and ends with a tear

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i was so stupid to think for a moment you actually cared

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i wish i was as invisible as you make me feel

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it’s funny how someone can break your heart
but you still love them with all the little pieces

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there’s a point we passed from which we can’t return < / 3

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i wish you weren’t in my dreams

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♥ : you break it, you buy it

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life isnt about waiting for the storm to pass;itz about learning to dance in the rain

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“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility”

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The hardest battle you’ll ever
have to fight is the battle to be
yourself!

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Dumb is not knowing,
Ditzy is having the courage
to ask!

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jealousy is a diease get well bitches

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Look at me & look at you; now tell me,
hunny who is jealous of who?

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where da drama neva endz
we hate da law sO we break it
lOyal tO diz life- ain`t nO way
tO escape it

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I called your boyfriend gay, then he hit me with his purse
:S

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“If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.”

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“If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.”

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” I’ve had a wonderful evening – but this wasn’t it.”

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“You’re the reason our kids are so ugly.”

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“I could eat alphabet soup and shit better lyrics.”

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“Even rabbits insult an dead lion.”

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“I can’t believe that out of 10,000 sperm, you were the quickest.”

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But, please, don’t insult anybody seriously, some people can take it very seriously Here are some quotes about insulting someone..

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How true this saying is,
” It’d be a terrific innovation if`you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.”

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Because you see, as Oscar Wilde puts it,
“A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.”

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“If you can’t ignore an insult, top it; if you can’t top it, laugh it off; and if you can’t laugh it off, it’s probably deserved.”

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“There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that the has never known trouble.”

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“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”

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“The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.”

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“It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.”

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But one should never an insult for so long, “Insults should be written in sand, compliments should be carved in stone”

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“If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon. ”

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“It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.”

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“A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.”

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“I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don’t have to be nice anymore. ”

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“I’m not that desperate and you’re not that lucky.”

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“The most effective comeback to an insult is silence. ”

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And always remember this,
“Never insult an alligator until you’ve crossed the river.”

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I’d like to help you out. Which way did you come in?

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May the Fleas of a Thousand Camels infest one of your Erogenous Zones.

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May you get the winning lottery ticket and a hole in your pocket.

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May you have eyes like a hawk and a spouse with warts.

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May you learn the secret of life in every dream, then forget it each time you awaken.

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May you live in uninteresting times.

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May you make a poor man richer: your doctor.

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May you make a widow and orphans happy — your own.

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May your children be so famous every policeman knows them.

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May your clock run slow, your heart fast, your bile over, your wife away, your nose always.

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May your daughters’ hair grow thick, black, and abundant — all over their faces.

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May your possessions never tempt another to steal.

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Your mind is a one bit processor with parity error

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Here’s a red box, go call someone who cares (Dedrick T.S.L.)

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The difference between this company and a cactus plant is that the plant has pricks on the outside.

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The hotel of your mind has many vacancies (Animaniacs)

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There are only two things I dislike about her – her face.

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The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave…
–Patrick Henry–

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Victory belongs to the most persevering.
–Napoleon Bonaparte–

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From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.
–Thomas Jefferson–

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We have met the enemy and they are ours!
–Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, 1813–

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Veni, Vedi, Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered)
–Julius Caesar–

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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
–John Stewart Mill–

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War is cruelty. There’s no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over.
–William Tecumseh Sherman–

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Freedom isn’t free.
–Anonymous–

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Never give in–never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
–Winston Churchill–

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If it moves, salute it; if it doesn’t move, pick it up; and if you can’t pick it up, paint it.
–Anonymous (1940’s saying)–

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The ‘eathen in ‘is blindness must end where ‘e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
–Rudyard Kipling–

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Soldiers are men…most apt for all manner of services and best able to support and endure the infinite toils and continual hazards of war.
–Henry Knyvett–

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A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general.
–Adapted from Henry G. Bohn–

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Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.
–Josephus Daniels–

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Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.
–Napoleon I–

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Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don’t have that problem.
–Ronald Reagan–

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A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.
–John F. Kennedy–

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A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.
–Admiral David D. Porter, USN–

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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
–George Patton–

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Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.
–Will Rogers–

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Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
–Thucydides–

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Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.
–Napoleon Bonaparte–

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We make war that we may live in peace.
–Aristotle–

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In war there is no substitute for victory.
–General Douglas MacArthur–

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Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
–Ernest Miller Hemmingway–

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The number of medals on an officer’s breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.
–Charles Edward Montague–

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Always forgive your enemies–nothing annoys them so much.
–Oscar Wilde–

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Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.
–Blake Clark–

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Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
–Helvetius–

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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier.
–Samuel Johnson–

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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
–George Orwell–

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Now I recall the Recon Marines ragged, filthy cammie shirted young men in green paint who move silent like the fog with deadly purpose in their eyes. Swift, Silent, Deadly. I smile. -
–GYSGT Correll, USMC, Retired– Recon Marine

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Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking.
–Ferdinand Foch– at the Battle of the Marne

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

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Live for something rather than die for nothing.

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Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

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No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

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The best morale exists when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear it it’s usually lousy.

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

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In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. -josé narosky

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I may wear the glass slippers, but my hero wears the combat boots.

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Freedom is never free.

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The girl he left behind is still behind him. Support our heroes!

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Real love is trading your pearls for his dog tags.

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They look ordinary, they lace up just the same, but it’s not the boots that matter, it’s my soldier in the boots that means the world to me.

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Live everyday like he deploys tomorrow.

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THe military is my husband’s mistress & sometimes that bitch gets all the attention.

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My heart is in basic training.

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My heart belongs to a soldier.

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Stay safe; sleep with a soldier.

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Sexually deprived for your freedom.

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My husband serves so yours won’t get drafted.

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Half of my heart is deployed.

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Military wife; I legally mess with government property.

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Military wife; the toughest job in the military.

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“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.”

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“The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.”

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“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”

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“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”

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“When I was a kid, my father told me every day, ‘You’re the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.’”

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“A little praise goes a great ways.”

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“Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One’s enough.”

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“So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.”

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“Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we’d had.”

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“Never do for a child what he is capable of doing for himself.”

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“There are times when parenthood seems like nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.”

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“The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.”

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“Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them, holding them – all of these further a child’s brain development and future potential, even in the earliest months.”

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“Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by the demands of his safety this must be done.”

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“He who does not teach his son an occupation is as one who has taught his son to rob.”

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“How true Daddy’s words were when he said, ‘All children must look after their own upbringing.’ Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a [child's] character lies in their own hands.”

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“It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.”

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“Disobedience is the infant’s first step toward autonomy.”

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“A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.”

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“The toddler craves independence but…fears desertion.”

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“There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.”

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“No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.” -

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“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

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“The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.”

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“Tiny children want to learn to the degree that they are unable to distinguish learning from fun. They keep this attitude until we adults convince them that learning is not fun.”

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“It is not attention that the child is seeking but love.”

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“What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no involvement in the decision-making.”

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“Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.”

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“Children love repetition, but not when it’s overdone. They will lose interest if you progress too slowly, and if you go too quickly the materials will be beyond their comprehension.”

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“If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid pressures we put on him. If, however, we are careful not to push a child beyond the limits of his courage, he is almost sure to get braver.”

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“If for only half an hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community.” -

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“What the father kept silent the son speaks out.”

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“If there is anything we wish to change in our children, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”

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“Because children see parents as authority figures and gods, they think that the way you treat them is the way they deserve to be treated: ‘What you say about me is what I am’ is a literal truth to your child. Consequently, when children are treated with respect, they conclude that they deserve respect and hence develop self-respect.”

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“Honor your father and your mother.”

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“Children thrive when parents set before them increasingly difficult, but always meetable, challenges.”

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“The greatest gifts my parents gave to me…were their unconditional love and a set of values.” -

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“Children have more need of models than of critics.”

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“Never lose your temper, except intentionally.”

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“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.”

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“When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.”

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“Patience is the greatest of all virtues.”

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“Virtue consists in actions, and not in words.”

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“Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.”

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“When our kids are young, many of us rush out to buy a cute little baby book to record the meaningful events of our young child’s life…but I’ve often thought there should be a second book, one with room to record the moral milestones of our child’s lives.”

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“If you want a sense of personal values we should be communicating to children…Healthy societies send signals to their children and to those who have become temporarily confused at any age.”

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“Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.”

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“True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.”

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“What does not kill me makes me stronger.”

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Relationship quotes to help gain a better understanding on relationships and people.

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However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the “right” person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside.

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A relationship is like a rose. How long it lasts, no one knows. Love can erase an awful past, love can be yours, you’ll see at last. To feel that love, it makes you sigh. To have it leave, you’d rather die. You hope you’ve found that special rose, cause you love and care for the one you choose.

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It’s okay to send flowers, but don’t let the flowers do all the talking. Flowers have a limited vocabulary. About the best flowers can say is that you remembered.

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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

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The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.

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When you look for the good in others, you discover the best in yourself.

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Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, can forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.

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All disagreements are results of misunderstanding someone else’s level of consciousness.

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Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.

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A deadness occurs in relationships when people are no longer willing to tell each other how they really feel.

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Before you try to change others, remember how hard it is to change yourself.

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Be good to yourself. People will only treat you as well as you treat yourself.

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Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it.

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A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself – to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.

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Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.

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Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a very old human need.

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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

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Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.

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There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.

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Oh, the comfort – the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person – having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

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Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

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Sticks and stones are hard on bones
Aimed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything
But silence breaks the heart.

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Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

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I like her because she smiles at me and means it.

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Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

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You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

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Present your family and friends with their eulogies now – they won’t be able to hear how much you love them and appreciate them from inside the coffin.

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Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. “Pooh!” he whispered. “Yes, Piglet?” “Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw. “I just wanted to be sure of you.”

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I felt it shelter to speak to you.

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Are we not like two volumes of one book?

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Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.

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Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important.

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Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us.

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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

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To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship.

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Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.

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No road is long with good company.

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If fame were based on kindness instead of popularity, on understanding and not on worldwide attention, you would be the biggest celebrity on earth. And to my heart, you already are.

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Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

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Good company upon the road is the shortest cut.

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Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.

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People change and forget to tell each other.

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In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.

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Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you’re really strangers.

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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.

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How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

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Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

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Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something. They’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

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The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.

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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

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Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.

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Our greatest joy-and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.

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The fundamental glue that holds any relationship together is trust.

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Commitment is inherent in any genuinely loving relationship.

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Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.

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Before we can have a successful relationship with anyone, we first need a perfect personal relationship.

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Don’t rush into any kind of relationship. Work on yourself. Feel yourself, experience yourself and love yourself. Do this first and you will soon attract that special loving other.

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Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.

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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement…all success… all achievement in real life grows.

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When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.

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If one does not wish bonds broken, one should make them elastic and thereby strengthen them.

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True faith is to have confidence in who God is

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I asked god for a flower,
He gave me a bauquet.
I asked god for a minute,
He gave me a day.
I asked god for true love,
He gave me that too.
I asked god for an angel,
He gave me you.

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God in heaven, God above.
Please protect the one I love.
Sent with a smile,Closed with
a kiss. I really love the one
who’s reading this.

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If you’re going my way, I’ll walk with you.

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Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed.

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Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He’s going to be up all night anyway.

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

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Young man, young man, your arm’s too short to box with God.

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God understands our prayers even when we can’t find the words to say them.

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What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

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A man with God is always in the majority.

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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

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You can tell the size of your God by looking at the size of your worry list. The longer your list, the smaller your God.

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Maybe the atheist cannot find God for the same reason a thief cannot find a policeman.

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I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn’t.

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A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.

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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

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God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.

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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

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God’s last name is not “Dammit.”

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Once one has seen God, what is the remedy?

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As the poet said, “Only God can make a tree” – probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

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Clearly, God is a Democrat.

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God: The most popular scapegoat for our sins.

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

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No matter how much I prove and prod,
I cannot quite believe in God;
But oh, I hope to God that He
Unswervingly believes in me.

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People see God every day, they just don’t recognize him.

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How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.

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God’s will is not an itinerary, but an attitude.

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Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

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How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

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I just hope God does not get bored of dreaming me.

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By night, an atheist half believes in God.

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Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon’s that “a little philosophy inclineth a man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.” At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram… he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men’s minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.

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You found God? If nobody claims him in thirty days, he’s yours!

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When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way between him and me, and I could reach his heart easily. It is up to him, after all, to have us, our part consists of almost solely in letting him grasp us.

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God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.

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I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.

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We strive to be God’s worthy audience.

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I wear a coat of angels’ breath and warm myself with His love.

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I simply haven’t the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

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Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

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When we can’t piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let Him help put you together.

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They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

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If you don’t know what’s meant by God, watch a forsythia branch or a lettuce leaf sprout.

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Some stand on tiptoe trying to reach God to talk to him – you try too hard, friend – drop to your knees and listen to him, he’ll hear you better that way.

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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

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It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.

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Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

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God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.

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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

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How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.

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God enters by a private door into each individual.

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Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

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God is the perfect poet.

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God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.

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God is not the name of God, but an opinion about Him.

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God’s promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine.

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“What do you think of God,” the teacher asked. After a pause, the young pupil replied, “He’s not a think, he’s a feel.”

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I feel most ministers who claim they’ve heard God’s voice are eating too much pizza before they go to bed at night, and it’s really an intestinal disorder, not a revelation.

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God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

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All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

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Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else.

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Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.

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We can never escape God’s lovely essence.

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Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.

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Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.

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Are you wrinkled with burden? Come to God for a faith lift.

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There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, “All right, then, have it your way.”

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We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter.

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Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. Really.

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Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts and no one to thank.

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Life is God’s novel. Let him write it.

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You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.

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When you knock, ask to see God – none of the servants.

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Your mind works very simply: you are either trying to find out what are God’s laws in order to follow them; or you are trying to outsmart Him.

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Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe in the God idea, not God himself.

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Most people wish to serve God – but only in an advisory capacity.

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I’ve been hiding from God, and I’m appalled to find how easy it is.

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The self-appointed spokesmen for God incline to shout; He, Himself, speaks only in whispers.

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A lot of people are willing to give God credit, but so few ever give Him cash.

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It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation – of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme – then rises in our mind the thought of God.

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To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.

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So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn’t, He is behaving like God.

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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

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Don’t look for God where He is needed most; if you didn’t bring Him there, He isn’t there.

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God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands.

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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God – I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

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We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

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‘T is heaven alone that is given away,
‘T is only God may be had for the asking;…

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We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not.

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How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it.

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No pillow so soft as God’s promise.

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The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him.

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For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.

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Some people talk about finding God – as if He could get lost.

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I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

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For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet…. Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long?

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I do not believe in God, for that implies an effort of the will – I see God everywhere!

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Is man one of God’s blunders, or is God one of man’s blunders?

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I believe in God; I just don’t trust anyone who works for him.

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I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

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All that I have seen teaches me to trust God for all I have not seen.

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“I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all,” Teddy said. “It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean.

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He who kneels before God can stand before anyone.

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Peace on the outside comes from knowing God on the inside.

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God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

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Hunting God is a great adventure

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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

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God is a verb, not a noun proper or improper.

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Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God.

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God is a circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

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Some people always sigh in thanking God.

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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

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If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

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If God asks that you bend, bend and do not complain. He is making you more flexible, and for this be thankful.

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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

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God – the John Doe of philosophy and religion.

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When we lose God, it is not God who is lost.

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Life is a tapestry: We are the warp; angels, the weft; God, the weaver. Only the Weaver sees the whole design.

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Those who never rebelled against God or at some point in their lives shaken their fists in the face of heaven, have never encountered God at all.

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

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I had a thousand questions to ask God; but when I met him they all fled and didn’t seem to matter.

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Don’t question God, for He may reply: “If you’re so anxious for answers, come up here.”

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I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light.

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Availability is better than ability for God.

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Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.

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God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the chagrin of hair-splitters, pedants, and preachers, who try to teach God his job as Creator.

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Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

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Peace is not the absence of affliction, but the presence of God.

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If you are not as close to God as you used to be, who moved?

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I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

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When we put our cares in His hands, He puts His peace in our hearts.

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Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.

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Exercise daily. Walk with the Lord!

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Be God or let God.

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I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

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God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

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Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God; and so there’s no room left for worry thoughts.

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I believe in the sun even if it isn’t shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when He is silent.

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God can never be a definition. He is more than even the entirety of the dictionary.

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Darkness cannot put out the Light. It can only make God brighter.

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No God, no peace. Know God, know peace.

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You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God’s mind?

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