The hardest chore to do, and to do right, is to think. Why do you think the common man would choose labor, partially, as a distraction from his own thoughts? It is because that level of stress, he most absolutely abhors.


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Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already c...
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The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic li...
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Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territori...
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At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'l...
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There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough ...
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The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the car...
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The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.
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Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone's parent, humility without love ...
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It is a harsh reality that some of the most important and respectable jobs which deserve high salari...
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If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.
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Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman ...
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Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceiv...
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It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside ar...
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Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marve...
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Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love tha...
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To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe...
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With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish y...
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If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.
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To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy - that is the greatest dare.
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One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one bu...
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Today's zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious.
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I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong a...
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The internet is where some people go to show their true intelligence; others, their hidden stupidity...
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Jealousy from a love affair is something even God can admit.
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Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer s...
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Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.
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To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be n...
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You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.
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Have nuts and be nuts.
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Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.
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To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.
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If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and...
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The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it com...
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As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositi...
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My belief is that, morally, God and Satan are vaguely on the same page. According to the common unde...
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