Mother Teresa (Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu) Quotes
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Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.
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God made certain people to play football. He was one of them.
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She's not even referred to until her husband's death in 1903. And even then it's only as 'Mrs. William Dewey.
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As I was smoothing on the last handful across the top of my thigh, I noticed I had company. Lewus was standing there watching me, eyes half-closed but not in the least sleepy. He'd put on his blue jeans, but nothing else... very sexy. I couldn't help but take in the view.
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Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.
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There’s something to be said for doing one thing right.
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Wow, I did so much for young black girls and girls around the world.
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We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.
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Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.
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It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating
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I'm a businessman, that's all.
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Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.
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God plants His saints in the most useless places. We say, 'God intends me to be here because I am so useful.' Jesus never estimated His life along the line of the greatest use. God puts His saints where they will glorify Him, and we are no judge at all of where that is.
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Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.
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At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently, all we can do is pretend we have been forgiven. As a result, our whole spiritual life is pseudo-repentance and pseudo-bliss.
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Saints are only sinners who keep trying.
