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Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else. C. S. Lewis

You Try Language Else Clear Make Sure Always Quite Anything Anything Else Mean Sentence Use Your

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. C. S. Lewis

Eyes Dark Light Universe Out Would Would-Be Never Know Without Were Just Meaning Should Therefore Whole Found Creatures

As a leader, you must consistently drive effective communication. Meetings must be deliberate and intentional - your organizational rhythm should value purpose over habit and effectiveness over efficiency. Chris Fussell

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness. Eckhart Tolle

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That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person. Eckhart Tolle

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. Edna St. Vincent Millay

Myself You World Hell Find Constantly Miss Miss You Daytime Like Around Falling Walking Where Hole Which Used Night

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. George Orwell

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Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. George Orwell

Class Patriotism Hatred Stronger Always Than Internationalism

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. Gertrude Stein

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There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. Gertrude Stein

Politics Has-Been Never Answer Been Any Gonna

Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It's not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline - and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience. Glennon Doyle Melton

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Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are, and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted. Gretchen Rubin

You Complain Reliable Unpleasant More Taken Taken For Granted Sincere Likely Praise Ironically Being Form Granted Less

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. Henry David Thoreau

Today Government Man Become He Towards Without Answer Does How American Behave Disgrace Cannot American Government Associated

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness. Henry David Thoreau

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When you gossip, it's self-hexing. Because when you do it, it comes back to you. Everything starts with the word. The word is demonstrating a condition of the mind. If it's in your mind and comes out of your mouth, it will be created. Iyanla Vanzant

You Gossip Word Mind Will Mouth Starts Back Everything Out Because Demonstrating Condition Created Your

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. Jerome K. Jerome

Love Love Is Through Like Go Measles

A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother. John Henrik Clarke

Relationship People Mother Heritage Child Same

Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off. John Henrik Clarke

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What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant. John Henrik Clarke

People Brilliant Damn Damn Thing Degrees Know Learned Lot Whole Thing

We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize. John Henrik Clarke

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Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense. Joyce Meyer

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