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wait.. ! I am receiving a correction ... JOHN C LEHMAN Many have screwed the truth, but few
have called her the next day. JOHN C LEHMAN My son walked up to Nicole on the beach and I was throwing the ball for the dogs in the ocean. I was... JOHN C. MCGINLEY If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what ... JOHN C. MAXWELL I built a baseball field in the lower part of our property and I'm always working on that. I got... JOHN C. MCGINLEY Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it. JOHN C. MAXWELL Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles
never do. JOHN C. MAXWELL The way President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person who had a know-it-all attitude. L... JOHN C. MAXWELL The problem for a lot of people is that they don't really know what they want. They have vague desir... JOHN C. PARKIN It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that?s the wa... JOHN C. BURTON Don JOHN C. MAXWELL I will tell each person what I have told others in the past JOHN C. METZLER Many veterans dream of being buried here. These grounds speak of dignity and respect, and the magnit... JOHN C. METZLER Believing in people before they have proved themselves is the key to motivating people to reach thei... JOHN C. MAXWELL I never know what South Carolina thinks of a measure. I never consult her. I act to the best of my j... JOHN C. CALHOUN Our well-founded claim, grounded on continuity, has greatly strengthened, during the same period, by... JOHN C. CALHOUN Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind. JOHN C. LILLY In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. JOHN C. LILLY If you don't have a policeman to stop traffic and let you walk across the street like you are somebo... JOHN C. WHITE People never care how much you know until they know how much you care. JOHN C. MAXWELL In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn. JOHN C. GRANVILLE We are approved by God, we don JOHN C. MAXWELL Sometimes we hold on to our possessions because we fear we might run out - life seems scarce. But wh... JOHN C. MAXWELL Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation. JOHN C. GRANVILLE A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less th... JOHN C. MAXWELL