Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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The world is too violent right now.
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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Ugh - I wish I could just sit back and watch TV sometimes.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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I force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natural instinct is to dive right in, but I know I'll get stuck. I like to stick with the architect vs. gardener metaphor. I guess I'm a gardener who plants tomatoes. I have the sticks in the ground and let the vines grow along those parameters.
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I have never once claimed that I have a Combat Action Badge. I have never claimed that I have a Purple Heart. What I have claimed is that I have served in a combat zone.
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We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and it's time to just unplug and look within.
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There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
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Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it ten per cent.
