"Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed."
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"An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness."
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"One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world."
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"Americans like to give their President the benefit of the doubt."
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"I'd give Donald Trump an "F." This has been the worst 100-day transition in my lifetime. And I was born during Franklin D. Roosevelt's term. This White House is by far the worst-run I have ever seen, certainly in modern times."
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"Trump hasn't really done anything yet to abuse his powers. I don't even know if he knows what all his powers are as president. And that worries me. He will learn. After he learns how the presidency works, he could become much more dangerous, because his personality doesn't change. Once presidents find their powers, they don't give them up. They use them."
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"To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament."
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"God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit."
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"Give me women, wine and snuff Until I cry out 'hold, enough!' You may do so san objection Till the day of resurrection; For bless my beard then aye shall be My beloved Trinity."
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"Unless men establish their complete happiness in God, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him."
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"Spiritual joy is what you experience when you choose to give thanks to God no matter what happens-even when things go wrong."
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"No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one"
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"Even mud gives the illusion of depth."
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"A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call sending."
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"Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it."
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"Take a look at your own heart, and you will soon find out what has stuck to it and where your treasure is. It is easy to determine whether hearing the Word of God, living according to it, and achieving such a life gives you as much enjoyment and calls forth as much diligence from you as does accumulating and saving money and property."
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"God does not give grace freely in the sense that He will demand no satisfaction, but He gave Christ to be the satisfaction for us."
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"The confidence that God is mindful of the individual is of tremendous value in dealing with the disease of fear, for it gives us a sense of worth, of belonging, and of at homeness in the universe."
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"What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the individual in a democracy ceases to feel his importance, then there is grave danger that he will give over his freedom, if not to a Fascist State, then to the advertising men or Publicity Agents or to the newspaper he happens to read."
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"The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It's fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today. I don't think we give ourselves enough credit for the overcoming."
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